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I recently switched our large-ish GitHub project to use reviewable.io for code reviews. The UI can be hard to understand sometimes, but so far everyone agrees it's a tremendous improvement over GitHub's joke of a code review UI.

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Reviewable founder here. I'd love to get somebody to sit down with me and rant about the UI so I can figure out how to improve it. Let me know if you're game. :)

Besides the UI, "reviewable.io" is a memory hog. It's simply unusable if you try to browse the site from a device without a lot of free memory (e.g. older tablets, ARM SoCs, etc).

Reviewable founder here. Yep, Reviewable is a heavy client-side app, and I make no apologies for it. Mobile devices are getting powerful very quickly (you can already use Reviewable pretty much fine on modern phones/tablets) and the target audience of developers generally needs reasonably powerful devices anyway. I'd rather miss out on some users in the short term than lock myself into an obsolete server-centric architecture in the long term...

That said, performance is always an issue, it's just a question of where to set the target.

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