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by andygocke 517 days ago
I guess people have different experiences as I don’t see the React changes as improving the mobile experience: just the opposite. I often interact with GitHub by browsing through the file tree and various links. But the new react renderer breaks the back button. So often when I’m browsing and hit back, I leave GitHub entirely instead of going back to the parent directory.
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Same. The broken back navigation needs more attention. Upvote here https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/75889
Between the back button issues and the horrible sluggishness on many repo and pull request pages, the React switchover has seriously degraded what used to be a great experience. Not just on mobile, but on desktop as well.