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i'm sorry but... GitHub IS not GitHub are Examples: GitHub IS a web site. GitHub is a SAAS app. The only plural aspect to GitHub is its employees and they are
by masukomi 11y ago
i'm sorry but... GitHub IS not GitHub are
Examples: GitHub IS a web site. GitHub is a SAAS app.
The only plural aspect to GitHub is its employees and they are not being DDoSed. The web site (singular) is.
I'm not going to bother explaining the problems with "under DDoS" or the other issues with this sentence.
- dhimes 11y agoIt's a British thing. Don't try to understand it- just let it be. :)
- toxican 11y agoIt makes sense, but "is" is too ingrained in my brain to ever go British.
- dopamean 11y agoI'd be surprised if no one at GitHub has said "we're being DDoS'd this morning." GitHub is a website. It's also a company of people who probably identify closely with the product they build, like many of us. I don't think it's that crazy to use "are" here.
- gtk40 11y agoPerhaps it is this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_British_English#Formal_and_notional_agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_Bri...
- codeshaman 11y agoTechnically, the Github servers are being attacked. The "website" (or "app") is the abstract thing that runs on those servers. The servers are trying to service a flood of incoming tcp connections and http requests from rogue clients, which slows them down. So "are" is not entirely out of place, but of course we all got the message ;).