alt Hacker NewsSomething I’ve also noticed is the number badge for open issues and pull requests not disappearing for a long while.
This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me think something new was opened, and then I keep clicking to find nothing. Or in one case I ignored something which was there because I thought it was bugging out as usual.
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I've been forced to use github projects recently. If I change the label or status, say, of a task, the change takes its sweet time to propagate through the UI. Creating multiple new tasks is a huge chore because every action is really laggy. It's hard to believe that anyone at github uses any of this junk.
It's annoyingly disconcerting. A simple database row count apparently now difficult in 2026.
Yeah, large companies like to really excel at specifically the eventual part of "eventual consistency", and without proper testing of production latencies, lots of UIs just end up broken, buggy and janky.
I don't know if I just got seriously grumpy over time/with experience, but everything user-facing just seems so crap nowadays, unless it's made by a smaller company who actually seem to care even a tiny bit.