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I can't imagine GitHub are going to be very thrilled with this. Maybe as a one off you'd fly under the radar but making it more widely available seems kinda sil
by remus 7y ago
I can't imagine GitHub are going to be very thrilled with this. Maybe as a one off you'd fly under the radar but making it more widely available seems kinda silly.
I like how it's marketed as 'no ads, always free'! Not so difficult to do when you're (ab)using someone else's service to handle all your data.
- icebraining 7y agoI think GitHub is okay with "creative" uses of their system, as long as one doesn't push the limits and doesn't make a business from it. Infamously, CocoaPods was serving directly from GH, maxing out out five server CPUs and using terabytes of traffic, and their response was fairly sympathetic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11245652
- remus 7y ago> I think GitHub is okay with "creative" uses of their system, as long as one doesn't push the limits and doesn't make a business from it. Being on the front page of hacker news feels a lot like "pushing the limits".