Also, I'm noticing a lot more "preload" pages ... e.g. the page loads with blank placeholder fields for the commit and text information that's then replaced live after loading the page. Maybe it did this before and is just slower now?
My cynical guess is that they used “page load time” as a metric to prove their new system was “faster”.
And maybe only tested internally on a faster system, or with hot-cache repository loads? It doesn’t seem to do it on reloads, though going away for a bit and coming back seems to cause it again (and, visibly, different parts of the page load at different times).
Anyway, It definitely reeks of “enterprise” so I guess Microsoft finally got enough people into github to steer the ship towards the iceberg.
