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[10ren]

I dread github sites because the site is so slow; exploring it, while a very appealing idea, is unfortunately just too tedious.

In lieu of a isitslowjustforme.com, is it slow for anyone else? I'm in Australia.

[andrewtj → 10ren]

I'm connected via a regional Australian ISP at the moment and don't find it slow.

[j_baker → 10ren]

The site's pretty responsive, but some things seem to take a while (like commit messages showing up and graphs to be generated). But then again, maybe I'm expecting too much.

[lawn → 10ren]

It works fine for me. It's really fast and responsive actually.

[grandalf → 10ren]

uh, have you used it lately? The problems were due to Engineyard and ever since github switched its hosting the site has been lightening fast.

[10ren → grandalf]

I mentioned it because I used it just now, because of this story, and I found it too slow to really be usable. It's, you know, a comment on the submission. Other sites are fast (e.g. HN).

If they use a lot of javascript, that might be slowing it down on my eeePC; but it doesn't seem to be javascript heavy. I wonder what it is. Incidentally, git itself is lightening fast on the eeePC.

EDIT on checking, they do have a fair bit of javascript. Most of their users, on fast machines, wouldn't be affected. A "githublite" version would be nice (like slashdot and reddit have), and might even increase sales marginally. I just tired adblocking their js, and it approx. doubled the loading speed (from 10 sec to 5 sec). Still too slow.

[samdk → 10ren]

That still seems really slow to me. I just tested my Eee, and it was loading in about 2s (in both Firefox and Chrome).

Granted, I am in the US right now, and that might be helping, but my connection is not particularly good at the moment either.

[grandalf → samdk]

same here, i'm actually using an eeepc to read HN at the moment too and github is plenty fast.