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Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D Thank you Github / Microsoft! > Due to a scheduling error, we published this story one day before the em
by lettergram 8y ago
Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D
Thank you Github / Microsoft!
> Due to a scheduling error, we published this story one day before the embargo lifted. This feature isn’t live yet, but Github will formally unveil it tomorrow. When that happens, we’ll update this post with a link to the official announcement.
Also... kinda unfair to others.
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- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago"Oops" we got a big industry exclusive. Our bad guys!
- lewisflude 8y agoI wonder if they reached out to GitHub to see if they felt it was alright to keep this up? Might be good if the author could clarify! Either way, really cool news.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoDefinitely cool news, even if it is a max of 3 contributors. I'd have liked to seen that a little higher, but they surely know what they're basing that number on. It's not enough to pull me from GitLab just yet, but if I keep having 10MB+ issues there, I'll switch.
- sytse 8y agoWhat issue are you having on GitLab? Do you mean the attachment limit? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/2654 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/2654 How large is it on GitHub and BitBucket?
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoDon't know what it is exactly. But definitely within the last year, I'll occasionally add a >10MB pdf or something and can't push that commit up, broken socket everytime. Same thing occasionally happens with a coworker. I 'fix' it by having someone else push the file, then delete the offending commit. Happens with bash in windows or GitHub Desktop. No one has ever been able to fix it. I have just tried to not use large files.
- sytse 8y agoThat sounds annoying to deal with, I'm sorry this happens. I'm not sure what the best next step is.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoYea, IDK. I’ll watch for it again, but in the meantime; it’s very nice to have the CEO of gitlab ask me about my silly large file problem :) If I ever consider leaving Gitlab I’ll weight this exchange against that.
- amyjess 8y agoOn the other hand, it's also "Oops, GitHub will never give us an embargoed announcement again, and a lot of other companies will probably follow suit."
- siruncledrew 8y agoAre there usually ramifications for leaking stories early like this? Would GitHub be peeved if another source published this before their official PR statement?
- AdamGibbins 8y agoThey won't get any more early news, so everyone else will get it before them. That's the usual way news embargo's work anyhow.
- brown9-2 8y ago"embargo" means Github gave this news to this outlet (and others) early, to be able to work on quotes and stuff. By breaking the embargo, accidentally or not, a possible ramification is getting fewer embargos in the future, if an outlet proves they can't be trusted.
- jdietrich 8y agoAccidental breaches do happen; they're embarrassing, but not critical. Deliberately or repeatedly breaching embargos will quickly put you on a blacklist. Nobody is going to provide you with embargoed press releases if they don't trust you.
- laumars 8y agoThis genuinely seems like an accident judging by the authors Tweets: https://twitter.com/matthewhughes https://twitter.com/matthewhughes
- egeozcan 8y agoIf I could ever get over the fact that they are using Wordpress, I still wouldn't be able to explain how a single person can set dates and publish stories on their own?!
- ktm5j 8y agoAt some point, it's one persons responsibility to enter that date into a computer in some fashion.. is he supposed to share the keyboard with someone?
- travisjungroth 8y agoYou require someone to verify the date. Then the verifier accepts them without looking because they've never been wrong before, and then we're right back where we started, except with more people to blame.
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- bovermyer 8y agoWordPress is used a lot more commonly in the news industry than you think.
- lgregg 8y agoIt’s better than using WordPress to run ecommerce. News content types are close enough to blogs.
- hluska 8y agoI don't work for TNW and have never written for them, but web editing often works like this: 1.) Author submits an article often as a word file. 2.) Editor starts working on the word file. 3.) Author and editor do 1-5 rounds of edits using track changes. 4.) Editor says "Great, post it to run at xx:xx on mm-dd." 5.) The author actually logs in and makes the post. If you're thinking that technology we use every day could solve this problem, you're right! Alas, it's harder to fix years of habits than the technical issues behind the habits.
- r3bl 8y agoYup, this will mean that there's no reason for me to keep my subscription as well. This will also make me a little more cautious as a consumer, since they're voluntarily removing the incentive for me to pay for their services upfront.
- adventured 8y agoIt'll be interesting to see how aggressive they are in trying to gain market share by putting off profitability improvements for the Github business. $40b in operating income and $135b in cash, they can certainly afford to play the long game if it makes sense competitively.
- crispyambulance 8y ago> there's no reason for me to keep my subscription... Perhaps, we'll see. Github hasn't actually announced the details yet. All we got is a story from a journalist who accidentally spilled the beans early. Could be totally wrong, but I expect there may be some incentive to induce folks to keep their paid plan.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y ago> Well, if true -- I'll be canceling my subscription :D > Thank you Github / Microsoft! What a weird way to thank a company. I get it, but still.
- nothrabannosir 8y agoMicrosoft doesn’t need thanking. It’s not a mom and pop shop. GitHub also doesn’t live in a vacuum and this is likely not puuuurely done out of the goodness of MS’s heart. There may have been some strategy wrt gitlab and bitbucket taken into consideration. Dare I say... competition? I don’t doubt their goodwill, but let’s not pretend the market is about that for MS. Edit—ah I now see the “thank you” in parent’s post. Ok disregard this, then. Totally fair. I’m dumb. :)
- _the_inflator 8y agoYep, but intented this way.
- pastor_elm 8y agoI don't thank for profit companies. They should thank me.
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- sjcsjc 8y agoIdeally, both parties act out of self-interest and both benefit. Thanks, while nice, are not required of either side.
- crawfordcomeaux 8y agoIn this day and age, I dare say both sides of any exchange could benefit from cultivating sincere gratitude for the non-monetary contributions resulting from the exchange. Thankless business is killing us culturally.
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- abledon 8y agothank you gitlab for providing market competition forcing github to consider this!
- sytse 8y agoYou're very welcome. Also see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18848267 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18848267
- rch 8y agoI've been transferring everything over to others for a while now, so this could be in response to a general trend in that direction.
- CoolGuySteve 8y agoThis was the reason I chose gitlab over GitHub. But now that I'm on gitlab, I'm finding I like it better mainly because of the docker-based continuous integration feature. Managing contributors and 2FA without all that "organization" cruft is handy too.