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There's already one news on front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675864 Can we merge them? Mods
And the comment that is currently at/near the top and mostly discussed happens to link to exactly this site.
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Not counting the redesign, there haven't been "sparkly" features. Sparkly features are the kinds of things the old management used to let engineers have free reign to implement. Github pre-Microsoft was rudderless. They were more prone to implementing silly 3d model diff tools and things instead of supporting enterprise features or building powerful CI/CD tools and automation. New Github is on the right track.
- Personal Status - Round Avatars (all catgirl ears are now cut off) - Collapsing of some similar messages on the Dashboard into one (i missed some things because of this) - Not just one, but several redesigns (im old) - The whole "marketplace" functionality (imitation of an app store) - The "explore" and "trending" functionality (i see this like a Facebook feed) Not sure about others, but i used GitHub as a git host…
I agree. I'll add one: README files with tables now require horizontal scrolling, and that's utterly disappointing.
> The "explore" and "trending" functionality
I do work in ML and computer vision, and this is how I discover all of the new models and code people are using. It's awesome.
> Not sure about others, but i used GitHub as a git host and issue/MR tracker. All the other stuff is just distraction in my eyes.
You're missing out! Deploying code is so easy once you're using CI/CD. Github actions are powerful.
It's easy to see from the uptime history [1] that there have been many more incidents in April-June than in January-April. Don't know if that has anything to do with the Microsoft acquisition, but it is concerning. [1] https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=1
Wow, that's stark. I count 6 in April-June (2 major outages) and only 1 in January-March (0 major outages. I wonder if COVID has affected this somehow. Anecdotally I've heard of at least one other ~peer company with a large rise in incidents/outages since April. Strange since both companies previously had a strong culture of remote work (maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of eng was remote) going into the pandemic, so I'd be quite sur…
Ironically, Firefox tells me to stay away from your website. Which, I will. update: the website is back and well now from my end.
It could also mean that they are more active and creating more chaos due to more changes. shameless and useless advertising.
What I don't get is how they can be down for hours on end. If I make a deploy that turns out to be buggy, I'll roll my site back to a stable previous version within minutes. Sure, that's not always possible if I've made incompatible database schema changes, but in my experience those are very, very rare (i.e. I almost always add db columns, and only rarely delete or rename columns - and when I do, I do so after those…
I'm sure these down times are more about infrastructure problems than just database updates and I'm also sure that this infrastructure is a little more complexe than your site.
It could also mean that they are more active and creating more chaos due to more changes. shameless and useless advertising.
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- Personal Status - Round Avatars (all catgirl ears are now cut off) - Collapsing of some similar messages on the Dashboard into one (i missed some things because of this) - Not just one, but several redesigns (im old) - The whole "marketplace" functionality (imitation of an app store) - The "explore" and "trending" functionality (i see this like a Facebook feed) Not sure about others, but i used GitHub as a git host…
> (a bunch of comments about the UX redesign) I agree. I'll add one: README files with tables now require horizontal scrolling, and that's utterly disappointing. > The "explore" and "trending" functionality I do work in ML and computer vision, and this is how I discover all of the new models and code people are using. It's awesome. > Not sure about others, but i used GitHub as a git host and issue/MR tracker. All the…