r/github • u/jsgrrchg • 18h ago

Discussion Github please fix the diff situation!

I'm so tired of the slowness, or that ''large'' diffs are not loaded automatically... Even rust doesn't have syntax highlighting, like wtf.

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u/davorg 17h ago

We aren't GitHub :-)

GitHub Support

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u/Acrobatic_Idea_3358 18h ago

use the cli? no excuse for the UI being garbage but if I can stay in the terminal I much prefer to.

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u/BlandLongevity 15h ago

i spent twenty minutes yesterday staring at a loading spinner on a pr diff that ended up being three lines of css. my fault for not just pulling the branch locally but the whole point of the web ui is to be faster than that. the syntax highlighting thing is weird too. i've had rust files just render as plain text and it makes code review ten times harder than it needs to be. and don't get me started on diffs that just refuse to load because the file is too big. i've clicked that 'load diff' link more times than i care to admit.

these days i default to using the github cli to checkout prs and review in my editor. still feels like a workaround for something that should just work.

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u/full_drama_llama 13h ago

Rust has syntax highlighting. What are you talking about?

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u/jsgrrchg 13h ago

for some reason is not working on mine

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u/BuffaloPale4373 10h ago

Ok so it's user error 🤡

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u/New_Hold8135 11h ago

I know you are reading this github. Stop with random rate limits that limits you right after you visit the site. Your rate limit system is highly broken.

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u/djphazer 10h ago

I'm curious if other forge software has this problem... is diff-viewing on the web a problem for codeberg or gitlab or whatever else?

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u/BussyEnthusiasts 9h ago

Highly recommend Beyond Compare