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GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by intunderflow »

Combined with the outage yesterday this hasn't been a good weekend for GitHub SRE's

I'm surprised something like this happened on a weekend though since I wouldn't expect anyone to be changing anything in the codebase (then again it could be some infra has just ran out of storage or etc)

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by junon »

Another gripe; unrelated, but since we're piling on...

My username ends in a hyphen. Apparently, that's no longer allowed, though my username appears to be grandfathered in.

Trying to give feedback about new experimental features lands me on the GitHub communities site, which is treated as a standalone app and thus requires you to log in via GitHub (it doesn't re-use the existing session token).

However, Communities won't let me sign up with my username since it has a hanging hyphen, and I can't change the username in the form. So I effectively can't sign up.

Support has not responded for over a month. Feels like things are inching toward getting worse with GitHub.

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by Eikon »

junon wrote: post #4

Another gripe; unrelated, but since we're piling on... My username ends in a hyphen. Apparently, that's no longer allowed, though my username appears to be grandfathered in. Trying to give feedback about new experimental features lands me on the GitHub communities site, which is treated as a standalone app and thus requires you to log in via GitHub (it doesn't re-use the existing session token). However, Communities…

Sounds like a very important and critical issue that should be prioritised.

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by favadi »

junon wrote: post #4

Another gripe; unrelated, but since we're piling on... My username ends in a hyphen. Apparently, that's no longer allowed, though my username appears to be grandfathered in. Trying to give feedback about new experimental features lands me on the GitHub communities site, which is treated as a standalone app and thus requires you to log in via GitHub (it doesn't re-use the existing session token). However, Communities…

I still remember the night when logrus's author decided to rename his Github account and broke our production build (https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/pull/384). Since then, I always vendor third party dependencies.

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

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Post by the_duke »

At least now I know why my nix builds are failing...

Odd for something like this to slip through and not be rolled back immediately.

Unless it was intentional, in which case it would be even more odd to not communicate this widely beforehand.

Re: GitHub Broken Download URLs

#10

Post by loloquwowndueo »

elephantum wrote: post #9
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #8

Say what you want about "cloud" reliability, but my little home server in a residential ISP has been up for more time than Github.com in (at least!) the past year.

Did it also handled similar load and feature complexity as well?

And does it have an army of highly paid developers and engineers to look after it also? ;)
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