I understand it’s a joke, but really isnt the entire point of git is to be able to work locally as much as you want without affecting the remote repo and vice versa
Git allows me to write code as much as I want. But GitHub does more than just Git. If you don’t remember the details of the next task you need to work on and GitHub is down, that’s a problem. As a senior I spend a lot of time reviewing PRs. That’s considerably harder when GitHub is down.
I mean there are tons of options in that space so if it’s an issue that is sorta on your business to have evaluated their dependency.
We work on an internal gitlab instance that has had 100 percent up time for like 2 years. It doesn’t even have to be gitlab, there’s gitea and like 10 other options.
I personally think that the industry has moved so far in the direction of cloud and saas that it’s lost a lot of valuable skills and made them dependent on too much externally.
It’s possible to design your devex to require an unreliable SAAS vendor for even basic tasks! If you try hard enough you can logjam your entire team!
I don’t really get this joke as I’m not a developer but does it have something to do with that thing where I try to search the site and it tells me it’s getting too many requests from my IP, even though I haven’t searched it in a month?
GitHub is where a lot of companies store their source code, so many software development workflows require it to be available. For a while it had fantastic uptime, but since Microslop started shoving vibe coded updates its reliability has cratered.
GitHub manages not one, but TWO nines of availability.
Sometimes both nines are even in the front!
It’s been Windows 11’d and the regular patches of downtime are just one of several new productivity-loss features to be rolled out.
Next; ads.
…no, wait, that’s already happened.
Next; sponsors.
…actually, wait, that was kind of done.
Next; a bloat UI front-end to minimise the confusing layout. Subscription to opt out.
codeberg was down a few times in the past days, but i feel like its got more uptime than github atp
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My self hosted gitlab instance has better uptime over the last 12 months than a billion-dollar SAAS product 🤣
At least codeberg isn’t a billion dollar company
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