I like how "Every request returns a 404" == "degraded performance"
It should load faster if there's nothing to load
They should have called it upgraded performance. The 404 page loads blisteringly quick!
We are investigating reports of degraded performance
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#32I cannot wait for Gitea, Forgejo, and GitLab to start federating with each other via ActivityPub. Then we can all take one more step away from a corporate-controlled internet.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
In theory, the code is there, but putting a project back together in a hurry after trouble at Github is non-trivial. Especially if the build process uses proprietary stuff such as "GitHub actions". The issues and discussions are all Github-only, too.
It’s crazy that there is no common CI spec. Every single platform is completely different. Last time I tried Act it had some pretty severe limitations. Perhaps I should take it for another spin.
The common CI spec is sh & make, but everybody hates those I guess.
Git hook management's really awkward. Even with tools to synchronize them (... all of them? You may want some that are just for your own use) it's a pain. "I want these hooks to run, in order, but only when a merge commit happens on a machine with such-and-such designation, and I want it to run the task on a different machine, but we need to make sure that runner's a Windows box because..." that just sucks to self-manage, and yeah, there's no standard for expressing that, you're bound to incompatible solutions.
Secret management's a hellscape and everyone's always glad when someone else solves the problem for you. That alone is like 50% of the value of Github Actions.
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#36PR really spun gold when they decided to label everything from every single one of their databases getting deleted and backups nuked to intermittent connectivity issues as "degraded". Who exactly are they making feel better by not calling a spade a spade?
Shareholders, generally.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
If only there was a decentralized system to allow version management of code.
Sadly, GitHub doesn't store its value-add assets within the repository itself; so all of the PR conversations, Gists, Issues, and so forth aren't within git itself.
That's by-design, and it's why no one should ever use Microsoft GitHub -- because you don't own your data, Microsoft does.
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#38I need a macro template for those memes with Bart Simpson on the blackboard and make it say "I will always have a backup plan for third-party services".
Seriously people: gitea exists. Gitlab self-hosted exists. Drone/Woodpecker CI exists. It's not that difficult to set up a project that does not depend on Github. I spent less time setting these up than the amount of down time that Github has had this year.
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#39PR really spun gold when they decided to label everything from every single one of their databases getting deleted and backups nuked to intermittent connectivity issues as "degraded". Who exactly are they making feel better by not calling a spade a spade?
People will take issue with any wording. Why try to find the exact right words each time when people will have exactly the same complaints?
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#40Github is becoming too important. A routine backup system is needed, something like archive.org, that backs up important Github projects.
Host a backup of your own code? It’s easy and can be done on a rpi. I wrote a go program in 1000 lines that automatically does this for me. And then I actually started using that as the main source and pushing the backup to github. It also pulls down anything i star into a different folder which get a sync one a day. The rest get a sync every hour.
There's also a tool called myrepos[0] that can be cronjobbed to keep local repos up to date