There's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation.
GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to. And when I have to for a project, it slows me down noticeably.
I thought I was alone in this, but asking around I found that this is a common frustration among developers I communicate regularly with.
I do the same - I've been running so many non-software things out of private GitHub Issues. I even have a simple system for creating a new issue every day to use as a personal TODO list, described here: https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/daily-planner
I've noticed everything feeling a whole lot less snappy and responsive over the past few days - ironically I think it's because they've done a major rewrite of the frontend presumably with the aim of making it more snappy and responsive!
I’m low-key certain it’s because they started using more React on the front end, especially for the new Issue stuff. The entire UI feels slow and janky like GitLab.
You're not alone. There's been an effort to transparently update the UI to a React implementation over the past year or two, and while I understand the benefits to that approach, they have introduced some flakiness in moving away from a the server-rendered pjax/html-pipeline/simple web components approach that was so cohesive and battle tested over the decade before it.
That's actually a really interesting way to leverage that feature. Have you found this easier than other services built specifically for this use case?
I've tried other tools. But I'm on GitHub most days, so it's been a seamless way to keep track of some things that would otherwise disappear into a calendar, or some tool that I don't use as often.
GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to. And when I have to for a project, it slows me down noticeably.
I thought I was alone in this, but asking around I found that this is a common frustration among developers I communicate regularly with.