Centralization is great, isn't it?
I think in a few years time we will look back and think "Waa, that was so archaic the way we used to do things!"
It would be nice if someone wrote a decentralized VCS...
GitHub was down
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Re: GitHub was down
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
They seem to be doing heavy work on it. Now on Mobile you can't see repos in "Desktop Mode" which is unfortunate. I have to tell my browser to pretend to be in desktop mode. Plus the regex post from the other day seems to imply they are working on new things when somebody from GH replied in said thread. I don't mind improvements, but don't break production guys...
> Now on Mobile you can't see repos in "Desktop Mode" which is unfortunate. Wait, what? On iOS Safari I can only see repos in desktop mode now (except the issue tracker which is responsive anyway). Which is a good thing. Not sure why you have the exact opposite experience? (I do vaguely recall being asked if I would prefer desktop mode on my phone a while back, and I said yes.)
I think it sets a cookie or similar to save this.
Re: GitHub was down
#133HN already has a 'Github downtime' post as soon as I find Github weird and check HN if it's only me. How is everybody so fast? :-)
If Github is down, the software developing world comes to a standstill. So people either get a coffee, take a shit or go to YCNews.
Almost nothing I work on has a dependency on GitHub. Whether work or personal. We have all dependencies vendored at work and my personal stuff is the same.
There really is no good reason bee so dependent on GitHub.
Re: GitHub was down
#134Don't forget to check your SLAs Enterprise = 99.95% (quarterly) https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-enterpr... They're having a bad February but January was good. We will see what March has in store
Mitigate: Local repos.
Re: GitHub was down
#135What do you guys recommend as a good way to continue work undisrupted when GitHub goes down? A second remote mirror?
Use self-hosted repos like gitlab or fossil, and then mirror the public parts to github.
Re: GitHub was down
#136This seems to be the third or so day in the past week I've had issues with GitHub around this time in the morning. They've typically been really good. I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been more talk about it on HN.
Yea, I'm surprised I didn't see anything from the outage yesterday.
Maybe they can’t post it because it doesn’t work /s
Re: GitHub was down
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git is distributed...
Yeah, but people are lazy and GitHub has a user-friendly UI with big green "Merge" buttons.
And ci integration; which runs automated tests; which must pass to release package/docker image/whatever; which is required for deploying new version for your system etc. The whole thing is as distributed as business of a guy selling hot dogs on the street.
Re: GitHub was down
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they're doing the usual corporate status page uptime lying: https://i.imgur.com/vy7onDT.png https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime
% uptime is a terrible metric. Begin down for an hour in the middle of the day is only .14% downtime for the month but is typically regarded as a big deal. If it happened every single workday you're still looking at 97% uptime! Sounds wonderful, right? Just work around it for an hour per day! Number of outages and duration total are much better metrics.
There should be enough pixels for each minute of a day.
Re: GitHub was down
#139Centralization is great, isn't it?
Gets philosophical as well - if you use laptop as a lamp in your tent - is it good or bad?