GitHub will not rollback their new Home Feed for performance reasons

by Zrenon 9/13/2023, 4:24 PMwith 1 comments

by Zrenon 9/13/2023, 4:26 PM

Direct link to Sept 12 update comment:

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66244#discussi...

> With the latest feed update on September 6, 2023, we made changes to the underlying technology of the feed to improve overall platform performance. As a result, we removed the functionality for “push events for repositories a user is subscribed to”. We don’t take these changes lightly, but as our community continues to grow tremendously, we have to prioritize our availability, user experience, and performance.

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Other threads:

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66188#discussi...

* https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65343#discussi...

Previous HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37413126

The old home feed can been still be seen at https://github.com/dashboard-feed (minus the sidebars) for now.