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GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by pawadu »

Watabou wrote: post #191
fbnlsr wrote: post #115

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I'm using both Gitlab and Github for different projects, and I just can't stand Gitlab's interface. Informations are scattered all around the place and there's no distinctive way of finding the information you want. Plus it's slow as hell. Github's UI makes sense. I can find anything in the blink of an eye and it's blazing fast. The team I'm currently working with is completely fed up with Gitlab.

I agree. I couldn't stand the slowness of Gitlab's UI. I originally came to Gitlab because Bitbucket was lagging on several features that I wanted, and had a poor UI. Gitlab's UI seemed more inviting as it was similar to Github. Mostly though, I chose Gitlab for the free private repositories. The Gitlab UI is /fine/, but the speed is what gets me. On github, even if I have thousands of commits, the UI is instantaneou…

yeah, gitlab _is_ slow. Given that they are (unlike github) actually making money I don't understand why they wont just throw more servers at the problem (or put some devs on fixing their backend).

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by flukus »

StreamBright wrote: post #409
flukus wrote: post #341

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But github has a monetization strategy, they're a paid service. This is more about their headcount expanding and possibly losing paying customers because they decided to get political.

Similar to Twitter. I do not understand why the hell they get political.

At least with Twitter it's hopefully a wake up call for a lot of people about relying on centralized infrastructure.

Then again, Snapchat.

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by pawadu »

jjawssd wrote: post #219
cperciva wrote: post #66

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99% of the value of github is the user interface, not the mere fact that it's a hosted git repository.

99% of the value of Github is that nobody wants to bother using anything else

> nobody

citation needed

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by flukus »

jolux wrote: post #413
flukus wrote: post #406

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I won't claim it's solely responsible, I don't even know if it's significant at all. But I did start moving projects over to gitlab and downgraded my account. The idea that you could lose your source code from wrongthought is worrying.

>The idea that you could lose your source code from wrongthought is worrying. Who is saying this, exactly? The conclusion of that thread was the top maintainer on Opal siding with the originator. If you're worried about him removing you from his projects for your political opinions, don't work with him. This is the argument of the other side in that debate. That this thread happened on GitHub is largely irrelevant. I…

Dis you miss the part where they hired the professional victim to help spread her politics?

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by galfarragem »

Github is too good to fail IMHO: if they raise a bit their prices, all their paying costumers will still stay and their money problems will mitigate.

By the other hand, Atom is clearly a long term loser and they should let it go. Their contribution to the text editing world was terrific but now they should focus where they are the best.

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by jolux »

flukus wrote: post #424
jolux wrote: post #413

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>The idea that you could lose your source code from wrongthought is worrying. Who is saying this, exactly? The conclusion of that thread was the top maintainer on Opal siding with the originator. If you're worried about him removing you from his projects for your political opinions, don't work with him. This is the argument of the other side in that debate. That this thread happened on GitHub is largely irrelevant. I…

Dis you miss the part where they hired the professional victim to help spread her politics?

Where is she spreading her politics through GitHub?

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by pawadu »

edoceo wrote: post #136
Fiahil wrote: post #60

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We'll just move the code to gitlab. Git allow us to do it almost painlessly (well, with a missing issue backlog). It's not a big deal.

GitLab has a migration feature that "just works". Was painless here

what does it include? issues, wiki, comments?

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by flukus »

jolux wrote: post #420
flukus wrote: post #407

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They hired the professional victim to prosecute anyone that dares to disagree with SJW rightthink. A contributor was forced to leave the project. All over issues that had nothing to do with the project. That's an issue.

Again, do you have evidence that this is actually happening? All I see is a lot of hay made over an issue that the project itself resolved (as well it should have been) from which point it launches into conspiracy theories about what's going to happen now that Coraline is in their employ. She was hired in February, a good 10 months ago. Has anything else happened as you suggest it would to cause concern in this vein…

It's not an isolated incident, there was also the code of conduct that makes it clear where GitHub is heading, and that is getting coding mixed up with politics.

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by flukus »

jolux wrote: post #426
flukus wrote: post #424

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Dis you miss the part where they hired the professional victim to help spread her politics?

Where is she spreading her politics through GitHub?

With more bullshit like the diversity hiring spree theyre going on. But the internal politics doesn't worry me as much of the fact that they hired a professional bully that can influence who is allowed to use GitHub.

Re: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

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Post by jolux »

flukus wrote: post #428
jolux wrote: post #420

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Again, do you have evidence that this is actually happening? All I see is a lot of hay made over an issue that the project itself resolved (as well it should have been) from which point it launches into conspiracy theories about what's going to happen now that Coraline is in their employ. She was hired in February, a good 10 months ago. Has anything else happened as you suggest it would to cause concern in this vein…

It's not an isolated incident, there was also the code of conduct that makes it clear where GitHub is heading, and that is getting coding mixed up with politics.

What? This? https://github.com/blog/2039-adopting-the-open-code-of-condu...

That's from July 2015, a full seven months before she was hired.

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