alt Hacker NewsThis whole thread is so embarrassing for GitHub.
The idea that you would change your product design in this way as a quick fix to solve a performance problem is insane.
This would be like if the battery life on a MacBook Pro was too short so Apple fixed it by removing the screen.
Job’s done, boss!
In a large enterprise if you task a front end team with solving a performance issue that is caused by the back end, invariably they’ll hack together some workaround… in the front end.
People only ever solve problems in the areas they have control over, whether that’s where the root cause is or not.