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Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by sharts »

stingraycharles wrote: post #52
khvn26 wrote: post #29

I had a lot of goodwill for GitHub but I think today is the tipping point. Looking at a unicorn page, I feel this lingering hope that it's transient (like it usually was in the old days) but my mind reassures me it's probably going to be a long full outage again. The hope is dead.

I’m willing to give them a break as I’m assuming they have a lot of scaling problems due to the influx of LLM assisted coding. But maybe I’m wrong?

Even Claude could have caught and addressed most of these scalability issues long ago. This can’t be due to load or capacity. This is something else.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by aurareturn »

bbkane wrote: post #146
aurareturn wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, my company uses Outlook and Teams. Both are the worst piece of software I've ever used. They're just trash. The UX is so bad. Things don't work as expected. Even basic things like composing an email, copy and pasting, formatting text are always a chore. Try setting up a Teams integration vs a Slack integration. Gmail is absolutely light years ahead in UX. I really miss working at a company that uses Sl…

I'm not a huge fan of Team, but I do have to give them credit for making the experience better over the years- a few years ago, search didn't even work!

- Terrible experience setting up bots/integrations with Teams

- Super poor formatting when trying to do more complex posts such as headings and bullet points in replies

- Copy and pasting images often don't work

- When you upload a video, sometimes the last 1-2 seconds get cut for no reason at all

- Keyboard shortcuts are suboptimal. For example, cmd+ shift + v which should clear formatting does simply does not work on Teams/Outlook.

- Grouping chats is far less intuitive than Teams channels

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by seanc »

ryandrake wrote: post #278
MoreQARespect wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of alternatives for git hosting. The last thing which needs to be migrated before we get an exodus off this vibe coded monstrosity is reputation (i.e. github stars) which are inherently sticky.

Git doesn't even need to be "hosted" anywhere. That's the point of it being distributed. What needs to be hosted somewhere are all the barnacles (like issue tracking, code reviewing, CI, and so on) that have grown out around git, that people and businesses have become dependent on.

Which is why they cleverly moved the central story of a software change from the commit to the PR. Commits migrate automatically with the repo. But migrating PR descriptions and comments takes engineering effort.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by csvance »

esskay wrote: post #149
zeroq wrote: post #110

It's been a downward spiral since covid. Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since.

Not sure covid was the sole driving force. A combination of MS taking over and deciding to move it to Azure, a massive increase in traffic due to ai usage (not that this should be an excuse for a platform that should be scaleable), and Github going all in on AI usage to write its own code. They're making it very easy for a viable alternative to pop up and take their lunch - it just wont be Gitlab.

While it annoys me how things have gone downhill, I think you missing one key detail with regards to competition. It's only "very easy" if you feel like throwing enough money at CI compute to power the majority of the open source ecosystems needs. That would be the bare minimum in order to even have a shot of achieving similar levels of network effects as Github.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by bewareofscams »

Arubis wrote: post #99

This is starting to feel like Twitter. For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outsize benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and stability, the community’s started to dissipate. But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself sp…

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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Post by semiquaver »

ieie3366 wrote: post #100

To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health

Why would you take what they say at face value? I believe that this is basically a lie covering up deeper rot.
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