The industry made a general decision after ZIRP ended to deprioritise availability after years of historic levels of engineering investment. It's no surprise we're now feeling those effects but damn, GitHub and other services like Slack have been really bad lately.
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#54Who's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?
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#55Maybe it’s time to learn their CLI (and then patiently wait for work to switch to another git service).
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#56The industry made a general decision after ZIRP ended to deprioritise availability after years of historic levels of engineering investment. It's no surprise we're now feeling those effects but damn, GitHub and other services like Slack have been really bad lately.
Is this true beyond github and slack? Both were acquired btw, that could explain their availability issues (just like twitter, now X).
What about e.g. AWS or GCP? Has their availability meaningfully reduced?
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#58There's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation. GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to.…
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#60Who's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?
Speaking of self hosting, Codeberg [1] is great. It's open and it looks and behaves pretty much like GitHub (unlike GitLab). [1] https://codeberg.org/