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Re: GitHub was down

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Second time in what, a week? What is going on at Microsoft?

What is going on that people expect something better from Microsoft? Really this is quite on par with the quality they deliver. The only surprising thing is that people are surprised by this.

Re: GitHub was down

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again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.

Out of curiosity, what could have Microsoft done to cause this?

I'm not aware of the acquisition details. But did they make GitHub switch to Azure or make significant changes to infrastructure?

I've seen several people blaming Microsoft for GitHub outages and am trying to understand why this is a common thing.

Re: GitHub was down

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again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.

Well, let's not forget the Gitlab outage where they basically lost a shit-ton of production data. I mean if we're just comparing apples.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab...

Re: GitHub was down

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again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.

I prefer gitlab too but github is where most projects are, and that plays a overwhelming huge role on deciding where devs (and so other projects too) will be.. :/ It could change, but would require a pretty huge fuck-up or a lot of time and many not-so-smal mistakes from github.

Re: GitHub was down

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again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.

But, UI of Gitlab is very bloated. I feel that UI of Github is less bloater than Gitlab.

Gitea is OK,but there is no one big instance(yes,I know about codeberg) . Sourcehut is made by one-man in his one-man shop,and it lacks many features that one needs.Also,it is Alpha software.

Re: GitHub was down

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again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.

Out of curiosity, what could have Microsoft done to cause this? I'm not aware of the acquisition details. But did they make GitHub switch to Azure or make significant changes to infrastructure? I've seen several people blaming Microsoft for GitHub outages and am trying to understand why this is a common thing.

When microsoft took over the rate of new features increased dramatically.

Adding new features fast often entails tradeoffs in other areas - such as reliability. Which seems to be what happened in github.

Re: GitHub was down

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again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.

Out of curiosity, what could have Microsoft done to cause this? I'm not aware of the acquisition details. But did they make GitHub switch to Azure or make significant changes to infrastructure? I've seen several people blaming Microsoft for GitHub outages and am trying to understand why this is a common thing.

Yes. Github used to be hosted on AWS. Now,they have migrated (at least partially) to Azure.
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