But GitHub is not a great Web app. It is frequently/constantly out of sync with the latest data/status. You quickly develop the habit of manually refreshing the page every time you are preparing to do anything with a PR, and that's not something that should be necessary these days.
It surprises me to see a loud and proud blog post detailing GitHub's process of staying so relentlessly up to date with the latest and greatest version of Rails: the app is not properly responsive, for whatever reason, and to a degree that would not be tolerated where I have worked. I would rather read about how they are trying to fix this issue.