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This is not a problem caused by normal people doing normal things so I don’t understand why people should take this into consideration.
- They knew the traffic would increase.
- they have the capacity to handle such traffic financially.
- there are a ton of other systems that handle more traffic and basically never go down.
- they don’t have to accept slop into their platform.
I went to look at a repo on Github today. Clicked on the "xxx commits" link to see the commit history, and got told I've hit a secondary rate limit and need to wait. I'm the only person on this network that would even look at Github, and my connection has a dedicated IP, no CGN.
Github still doesn't support SHA-256 git repos ( https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/12490 ) even though their competitors (Gitlab, Codeberg) have that for ages now.
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sadly even that isn't an option for me. i spent half an hour yesterday trying to create a github account. i couldn't. my @proton.me got rejected. captchas take several painful minutes to complete. and even when I did manage to create an account (at least the page displayed a success mesage), it got disabled the instant I logged in for "TOS violation". i wish i was joking, but i literally cannot create a github accoun…
Take that as a hint. Make an account somewhere else. The article lists several alternatives.
I have lost count of how many times something went down on GitHub ever since documenting it on this comment chain [0] and also predicting 6 years ago [1], that going all in and centralizing everything on to GitHub was really not a good idea if you need stability or to push a critical fix and your GitHub actions doesn't work. Now, are you going to finally self host or should we continue to expect another outage on Git…
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I just installed a gitea. It seems decent.
It absolutely is. The only concerns are if it were exposed to the public internet and scale. For personal stuff? It's spectacular.
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Don't they inject malware/adware into your build artifacts?
> Don't they inject malware/adware into your build artifacts? Aw, c'mon! The did this for about 4 months which ended in 2015! Prior to that they had Windows installers which did the same, but that also only lasted a few months. It's now 2026. Exactly what software did you host on sourceforge from 2011 to 2015? Because I hosted my GPL stuff there, and I moved away because I was affected, and yet I am not concerned tha…