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I wish... even GitHub won't work properly without JavaScript enabled these days.

IME, most parts of GitHub work fine without JS enabled. (Though sometimes I have to disable CSS to get my hands on some forms…)

This is unlike major competitors (GitLab, Bitbucket), which are completely broken.

Hello everyone, GitLabber here! We had a similar issue about this [1], and we raised another one when deciding to further clarify our documentation regarding this question [2]. You can find out more about our motives behind this decision there.

[1] - here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36754 [2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43436

Ironically, you have to enable JS to see comments for these issues…

Not really ironic, it tells you what the answer in those comments was

Completely disabling Javascript isn't feasible, but you can use uMatrix or NoScript with all scripts blocked by default, and only whitelist ones on sites/domains that you trust.

Exactly. I've been browsing script-free for twenty years. It used to be a real pain switching on and off, until Opera introduced easy by-site settings. But then, back in the day most sites were perfectly servicable without any scripting whatsoever. And these days, uMatrix makes it all a snap.

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