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Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by belter » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:11 PM UTC

junon wrote: post #4

Another gripe; unrelated, but since we're piling on... My username ends in a hyphen. Apparently, that's no longer allowed, though my username appears to be grandfathered in. Trying to give feedback about new experimental features lands me on the GitHub communities site, which is treated as a standalone app and thus requires you to log in via GitHub (it doesn't re-use the existing session token). However, Communities…

I am surprised a Microsoft MVP Certified Professional expert did not pop up yet in the newsgroup, asking you to reboot your machine and review the steps in a certain technote ;-)

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by framecowbird » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:12 PM UTC

belter wrote: post #11

junon wrote: post #4

Another gripe; unrelated, but since we're piling on... My username ends in a hyphen. Apparently, that's no longer allowed, though my username appears to be grandfathered in. Trying to give feedback about new experimental features lands me on the GitHub communities site, which is treated as a standalone app and thus requires you to log in via GitHub (it doesn't re-use the existing session token). However, Communities…

I am surprised a Microsoft MVP Certified Professional expert did not pop up yet in the newsgroup, asking you to reboot your machine and review the steps in a certain technote ;-)

"Have you tried closing your browser and then opening it again?"

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by framecowbird » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:13 PM UTC

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #10

elephantum wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did it also handled similar load and feature complexity as well?

And does it have an army of highly paid developers and engineers to look after it also? ;)

And does it have a cute animal-based mascot?

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by GordonS » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:15 PM UTC

junon wrote: post #4

Another gripe; unrelated, but since we're piling on... My username ends in a hyphen. Apparently, that's no longer allowed, though my username appears to be grandfathered in. Trying to give feedback about new experimental features lands me on the GitHub communities site, which is treated as a standalone app and thus requires you to log in via GitHub (it doesn't re-use the existing session token). However, Communities…

I don't mean to "victim blame", but I'm curious why you'd choose a username ending in a hyphen in the first place? (I would have thought this wouldn't work on lots of services)

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by yardstick » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:16 PM UTC

intunderflow wrote: post #3

Combined with the outage yesterday this hasn't been a good weekend for GitHub SRE's I'm surprised something like this happened on a weekend though since I wouldn't expect anyone to be changing anything in the codebase (then again it could be some infra has just ran out of storage or etc)

Perhaps there’s a lack of attention due to the holiday weekend in the US? Seems like major incidents in infrastructure and services tend to happen over holidays (general observation, not GitHub specific).

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by mfashby » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:16 PM UTC

This has also broken a bunch of packages in the arch user repository, for example https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dendrite/

:(

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by seoaeu » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #8

Say what you want about "cloud" reliability, but my little home server in a residential ISP has been up for more time than Github.com in (at least!) the past year.

And if github.com tried to host their website entirely off your little home server, they’d surely have 24x7 outages from being bombarded by too much load. All your anecdote proves is that it is easier to keep a single server online than operate a big distributed system, which has been obvious for quite a while

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by arendtio » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #8

Say what you want about "cloud" reliability, but my little home server in a residential ISP has been up for more time than Github.com in (at least!) the past year.

Well, my home server has about the uptime as WhatsApp had this year. Yet I am still happy that I moved my XMPP server to the Hetzner cloud as it seems to have a better uptime then both ;-)

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by junon » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

GordonS wrote: post #14

junon wrote: post #4

Another gripe; unrelated, but since we're piling on... My username ends in a hyphen. Apparently, that's no longer allowed, though my username appears to be grandfathered in. Trying to give feedback about new experimental features lands me on the GitHub communities site, which is treated as a standalone app and thus requires you to log in via GitHub (it doesn't re-use the existing session token). However, Communities…

I don't mean to "victim blame", but I'm curious why you'd choose a username ending in a hyphen in the first place? (I would have thought this wouldn't work on lots of services)

I signed up to GitHub almost 11 years ago, and someone else already registered the username I used for everything. So 11-years-ago-me tacked on a hyphen as I had seen a few other people do it, too.

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by Causality1 » Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

belter wrote: post #11

junon wrote: post #4

Another gripe; unrelated, but since we're piling on... My username ends in a hyphen. Apparently, that's no longer allowed, though my username appears to be grandfathered in. Trying to give feedback about new experimental features lands me on the GitHub communities site, which is treated as a standalone app and thus requires you to log in via GitHub (it doesn't re-use the existing session token). However, Communities…

I am surprised a Microsoft MVP Certified Professional expert did not pop up yet in the newsgroup, asking you to reboot your machine and review the steps in a certain technote ;-)

Hey now, that's libel. There are problems that can be solved by rebooting, and a Microsoft MVP would never post a genuine potential solution. I'm pretty sure you meant to say "an MVP popped up in the newsgroup to copy/paste a paragraph of random intro text and then ask if he's solved your problem".