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Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by john01dav »

metalliqaz wrote: post #25

Dear sages of HN, what is the scrappy new upstart project that will rise up to take Github's place? Because this is becoming intolerable.

I think that the answer here is eventual widespread use of many smaller options, from FSF's Savannah to self-hosted gitea/forejo/gitlab.

Git is in a good position to support this.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by reaperducer »

bootsmann wrote: post #23

I am surprised at how much github is willing to let themselves go for being a product that can nowadays be replaced by someone over the weekend. This is the second major outage within like 2 weeks.

for being a product that can nowadays be replaced by someone over the weekend.

If one person can move a company move off of GitHub in a weekend, you're too small a company for Microsoft to care about.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by homebrewer »

j45 wrote: post #30

The cloud is someone else’s computer. I wonder if self hosting is more reliable. How much does a private and firewalled git* instance need updates?

Our gitea uptimes are measured in months. The only downtime is during non-working hours for upgrading gitea & the underlying OS, which take about 5 seconds of work and another 15 seconds of waiting for it to upgrade the database and restart.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by gethly »

I've always used Bitbucket as it allows private repositories, so Github was never something I wanted to use. But it is one of the most important websites in the world for tech people and should be run better than this, especially being now owned by the largest tech company in the world. On the other hand, it just shows that centralisation, or over-reliance on one thing or service, is always the worst idea. But people are very lazy and so we keep running in these circles ad infinitum.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by jeltz »

dzogchen wrote: post #56
jeltz wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does it compare to Gitlab?

Much simpler. Much less features. Completely open source and not only the core.

Any important feature from Gitlab you feel is missing? I personally think Gitlab has way more features than I need but maybe there are some important ones I would miss.

Re: GitHub was having issues

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Post by bootsmann »

reaperducer wrote: post #52
bootsmann wrote: post #23

I am surprised at how much github is willing to let themselves go for being a product that can nowadays be replaced by someone over the weekend. This is the second major outage within like 2 weeks.

for being a product that can nowadays be replaced by someone over the weekend. If one person can move a company move off of GitHub in a weekend, you're too small a company for Microsoft to care about.

It was less about moving your company away and more about the core functionality being extremely simple to reproduce.
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