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0 pointsrascul2y ago0 comments

> Even Microsoft’s GitHub has all kinds of glitches unless you’re using a chromium browser.

What are some of the glitches? I'm curious if I've ran into any of them.

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Given how bad the current Github UI is (and how sloppy the rollout was) I'm quite content to attribute it to incompetence rather than malice, but:

Type a long blurb into a text input widget e.g. a comment on a pull request. The text just bounces up and down as you type. I've noticed this with whatever the extended support version of Firefox (macos 10.14) is and with the current Firefox (macos 14.1). To be fair GH renders widgets partially off screen with whatever version of Safari comes with macos 10.14 There is no more static text on GH so if you go back further than that (or have javascript disabled) nothing renders at all.

There's no issue tracker (because why would there be?) but there was a discussion thread. Last I saw someone posted detailed steps to reproduce a search bug and the GH response was to lock the discussion thread.

isodev2y ago

The star repository button sometimes doesn’t work in Safari and you have to toggle it twice (which is lol, you had one job)

Repository settings have a whole lot of knobs and toggles that don’t save or remain disabled unless you manage them from a chromium-something.

I agree that while it doesn’t need to be targeted at specific agents, the fact that they don’t spend the time to test their things on other agents is saying enough.

ForkMeOnTinder2y ago

ctrl-/ doesn't work in firefox for me (the shortcut for "Focus secondary search bar")

But all things considered that's pretty minor

Thin_icE2y ago

Same, never found any glitch.

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