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Tell that to the people who relied on Google Wave and Wunderlist. Or to the people who said "Linux will go the way of every other hobbyist OS" in 1994. I knew s
by 015a 4y ago
Tell that to the people who relied on Google Wave and Wunderlist. Or to the people who said "Linux will go the way of every other hobbyist OS" in 1994. I knew several orgs who were devastated when Atlassian shut down Hipchat.
If you want the only guaranteed probability about the future: its that most predictions about the future are wrong. Everything dies eventually; the things you least expect last longer than you expect them to; or sometimes much shorter. I do feel pretty confident that both Github and sr.ht will be operational tomorrow. But, not 100%; and even less than that next Tuesday; and even less by September.
Actually, Github has had 12 public incidents since May. So... maybe I shouldn't be so bold with my predictions about Github's operational status.
When people say "something is unlikely to happen" what they really mean is: I really hope that thing doesn't happen. Me, personally; I hope both Github and sr.ht continue to see success. As you say; me choosing to pay Github $5/mo won't change anything for the better or worse; but paying that to sr.ht, now that impact is much bigger. If you distil it down to the manifestation of your own hopes: I think the choice of who to support is obvious.
- newuser94303 4y agoGoogle Wave is a bad example. I went to the first hackathon and knew it was doomed. It never had any real traction. Github has massive market share and may get expensive but is unlikely to die.
- OJFord 4y agoYeah exactly, GitHub would be sold, not turned off. And that would worry people, sure, new owners may not look after it, etc., but there'd be plenty of time and warnings to move off it.
- snapetom 4y agoGoogle Wave was also a looong time ago. People were still thinking of them as the "do no evil" company.
- EricE 4y agoGoogle and Microsoft are not even remotely similar in culture or product support. Say what you want about Microsoft, they do more than just search or advertising. If anything you are interested in from Google isn't search or advertising related, don't count on it lasting. The only people surprised by Wave and/or Wunderlist getting canned are people who haven't been realistically looking at who Google is and how they operate. The worst IT contracts I have ever had to administer are with Google - they are a complete joke. As for "incidents" - lol - who doesn't have them? What's more important is how does the org in question respond to them. You seriously think sr.ht is going to have the same resources as github/Microsoft? Then again it's a dramatically simpler platform so that's a huge advantage as far as that goes - but just look at this thread; as they add more features the chances for incidents goes up.