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Re: GitHub down

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Post by coding123 » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:26 PM UTC

shawabawa3 wrote: post #6

nezza-_- wrote: post #2

We centralized a decentralized version control system.

$2 billion to the first person to draft a decentralised git coin WhitePaper

I think you just did.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by drdaeman » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

rayboy1995 wrote: post #4

Status page apparently isn't automatic because it is yet to be updated.

Seems that it is automatically generated, though, because it's now "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" all over.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by d4nyll » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

If the stars align and Stack Overflow goes down too, I can just go home.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by snvzz » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

All the "diversity" nonsense finally shows its consequences.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by scoot » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

Apparently the status has been "red" every day since December 1st: https://status.github.com/messages/2017-12-07

"The status is still red at the beginning of the day"

Yesterday was the first "normal" day, before this outage.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by kuon » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

It's been only 7 minutes and I already noticed it (outside of HN), we rely too much on github :P

Re: GitHub down

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Post by CoffeeDregs » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

d4nyll wrote: post #17

Now the status page is updated, but the status on previous days are all saying "The status is still red at the beginning of the day"

I saw that, too, and was fairly concerned. A smoothly running, quality focused engineering organization doesn't leave a status page un-updated for 3+ weeks...

Also, "reports of service unavailability"? I would expect monitoring tools to be screaming...

Re: GitHub down

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Post by peterwwillis » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

nezza-_- wrote: post #2

We centralized a decentralized version control system.

Welcome to the modern tech world. While you're waiting for the site to come back up, let me tell you all about my new startup, SquareWheel(TM).

edit: Oh jesus christ, there's a fucking tech company called Square Wheel. Kill me now.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by leeoniya » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

jeppz wrote: post #35

leeoniya wrote: post #25

this PSA is quite unnecessary when a problem is universally known and maximally severe.

Well I didn't know, not everyone uses it on a daily basis.

so is it interesting for you to know that a service you don't use daily is down for a couple hours? this random github outage happens basically every other month, and is fixed in like 30 minutes. every time it's on HN frontpage.

people who use Github will already know.

Re: GitHub down

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Post by chrisseaton » Thu, Jan 11, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC

vuldin wrote: post #27

nezza-_- wrote: post #2

We centralized a decentralized version control system.

The issue is that the features we use along with git, many of which github provides, are not decentralized. The true but tired argument that git will continue to work when github goes down totally ignores this issue. Yes, git still works. But we don't just rely on the features git provides.

So this isn't really anything to do with Git then is it? So why joke we centralised Git when really we centralised a bunch of other things that are not really anything to do with Git?