I think this is an indicator of a broader trend where tech companies put less value on quality and stability and more value on shipping new features. It’s basically the enshittification of tech
GitHub is down again
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can self-host GitHub enterprise.
Ooh - got a source?
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#63GitHub downtime is going from once a month (unacceptable) to twice a month (what the fuck?)
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#64So, what're people's alt stack for replacing GitHub?
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#65You can literally watch GitHub explode bit by bit. Take a look at the GitHub Status History; it's hilarious: https://www.githubstatus.com/history .
You know what I think would reverse the trend? More vibe coding!
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#66Take it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.
At its core antitrust cases are about monopolies and how companies use anti-competitive conduct to maintain their monopoly. Github isn't the only source control software in the market. Unless they're doing something obvious and nefarious, its doubtful the justice department will step in when you can simply choose one of many others like Bitbucket, Sourcetree, Gitlab, SVN, CVS, Fossil, DARCS, or Bazaar. There's just t…
Can they use Github to their advantage to maintain a monopoly if they are nefarious? Think about it.
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#67Is it just me, or are critical services like GitHub, AWS, Google, etc., down more often than they used to be these days?
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#68Microslop strikes again!
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#70Can we please demand that Github provide mirror APIs to competitors? We're just asking for an extinction-level event. "Oops, our AI deleted the world's open source." Any public source code hosting service should be able to subscribe to public repo changes. It belongs to the authors, not to Microsoft.
The history of tickets and PRs would be a major loss - but a beauty of git is that if at least one dev has the repo checked out then you can easily rehost the code history.