While you were sleeping…
…we rolled out some big changes. Okay, not all of you were asleep. But some of you were. For one thing, the site should be much faster. Every page. …
…we rolled out some big changes. Okay, not all of you were asleep. But some of you were.
For one thing, the site should be much faster. Every page.
Second of all, you may notice our new Ajaxified tree browsing.

Commit information is now fetched via Ajax to help alleviate stress on our file system. As our caches fill up you should see the “Loading…” message less and less.
Enjoy, and please let us know if you run across any issues. These are some pretty massive under-the-hood changes and we expect a few kinks.
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