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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.

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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

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