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Comment by AaronFriel | Hacker News Reader

If anyone from GitLab is reading this, these pages are locked in a refresh loop. I can't read the content because it is scrolling/moving slightly with every refresh which is happening constantly.

Latest version of Chrome stable, uBlock Origin in default config, HTTPS Everywhere, React/Redux devtools are the extensions I have installed.

I let the page run for 30 seconds and:

* CPU usage on two cores was at 100%

* 2,943 requests were made for 319 MB of resources over 30.06 seconds

A staggering rate of 100 requests per second that persists indefinitely - I have no reason to believe the refresh loop is broken at any point.

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Thanks for reporting this. I created an issue to report this to the Gitlab website team. You can follow along and anything I might have missed here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/8052

GitLab technical evangelist here.

I can't seem to reproduce this - maybe it's uBlock Origin? Are you sure it's the default configuration? What were the requests to - just to the main HTML page?

Yes, the page infinitely navigates back to itself resulting in a whole page refresh.

Same issue here as the original post and similar extensions. I followed the suggestion of clearing cookies for about.gitlab.com and it doesn't help.

We're working on this issue here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/8052. Hardest part - like much of software engineering - is trying to figure out how to reproduce it.

@AaronFriel try deleting your cookies for the website and see if that resolves it. I recall someone at GitLab having that problem the other day and think I recall that clearing their cookies fixed the issue for them. Either way I'll notify our marketing website team to have a look at this.

One thing to look at is that the page does at least one whole page refresh by default, even an incognito window.

If I open up the page in incognito, I see two requests in the network tab for https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/06/22/gitlab-13-1-rel...

Same problem as you on Chrome. I thought it was just me. I see requests happening to many different sites.

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