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As the PM who ended up finally killing it, I (on behalf of the team) thank you for your "joke" that wasn't really a joke. It did help some customers who had leg

As the PM who ended up finally killing it, I (on behalf of the team) thank you for your "joke" that wasn't really a joke. It did help some customers who had legacy SVN workloads land on GitHub. I wanted to announce this on April Fool's Day, but just couldn't make the timing work.

schacon 4y ago
I tip my hat to your team and I owe you all beers, my friends. You are doing the lord's work.
klyrs 4y ago
> I wanted to announce this on April Fool's Day, but just couldn't make the timing work. Thank you for not doing that. Releasing a wacky feature on April 1 is funny. Discontinuing a service that people might rely on is distinctly un-funny.
- adamdusty 4y ago
  I disagree. It would probably prompt a few support calls and emails, but otherwise I think it would be great.
  - klyrs 4y ago
    I don't read the news on April 1 because it got old decades ago. Sunsetting a service, rather than killing it outright, is a kindness. Making the announcement on April 1 means people will miss it or ignore it. Uncool.
  - rhaway84773 4y ago
    “A few support calls” = At least a few companies who have unnecessarily faced major enough issues that they worked through internal investigations of many different pieces in the stack and then eventually decided to reach out to external support for GitHub, potentially having reached out to other vendors’s support because some PM thought it would be “funny”. I don’t actually think it would cause any problems personally, but I’m astonished at the flip dismissal of a “few support calls”.
IgorPartola 4y ago
Instead add FTP version control support with the ability to create backup files.
- colonelpopcorn 4y ago
  source.php.old.ReallyOld.bak.thistimeitsold.old
  - IgorPartola 4y ago
    Exactly. When it is a small change, just comment it out. But when it’s a large change, create a .old.backup.2013-12-07.dontdelete.
  - m4tthumphrey 4y ago
    source.php_newnewnew
  - rezonant 4y ago
    I wonder how much PHP source code is publically reachable out on the Internet because people would do this without realizing that modphp wouldn't treat it like a PHP file anymore, so an HTTP request to it would cause it to dump the file's source code.
    - mattl 4y ago
      index.php~ for anyone using Emacs
- snickerbockers 4y ago
  i'm still angry at mozilla and google for deprecating that, being able to set up a simple anonymous FTP server and send normies a link to it that they can open in their browsers was really convenient. Now if I want to use FTP i have to explain to them that they have to copy it into the windows file explorer or download filezilla.
  - Aachen 4y ago
T3RMINATED 4y ago
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omershapira 4y ago
I love the internet dearly

schacon 4y ago

I tip my hat to your team and I owe you all beers, my friends. You are doing the lord's work.

klyrs 4y ago

> I wanted to announce this on April Fool's Day, but just couldn't make the timing work. Thank you for not doing that. Releasing a wacky feature on April 1 is funny. Discontinuing a service that people might rely on is distinctly un-funny.

adamdusty 4y ago
I disagree. It would probably prompt a few support calls and emails, but otherwise I think it would be great.
- klyrs 4y ago
  I don't read the news on April 1 because it got old decades ago. Sunsetting a service, rather than killing it outright, is a kindness. Making the announcement on April 1 means people will miss it or ignore it. Uncool.
- rhaway84773 4y ago
  “A few support calls” = At least a few companies who have unnecessarily faced major enough issues that they worked through internal investigations of many different pieces in the stack and then eventually decided to reach out to external support for GitHub, potentially having reached out to other vendors’s support because some PM thought it would be “funny”. I don’t actually think it would cause any problems personally, but I’m astonished at the flip dismissal of a “few support calls”.

IgorPartola 4y ago

Instead add FTP version control support with the ability to create backup files.

colonelpopcorn 4y ago
source.php.old.ReallyOld.bak.thistimeitsold.old
- IgorPartola 4y ago
  Exactly. When it is a small change, just comment it out. But when it’s a large change, create a .old.backup.2013-12-07.dontdelete.
- m4tthumphrey 4y ago
  source.php_newnewnew
- rezonant 4y ago
  I wonder how much PHP source code is publically reachable out on the Internet because people would do this without realizing that modphp wouldn't treat it like a PHP file anymore, so an HTTP request to it would cause it to dump the file's source code.
  - mattl 4y ago
    index.php~ for anyone using Emacs
snickerbockers 4y ago
i'm still angry at mozilla and google for deprecating that, being able to set up a simple anonymous FTP server and send normies a link to it that they can open in their browsers was really convenient. Now if I want to use FTP i have to explain to them that they have to copy it into the windows file explorer or download filezilla.
- Aachen 4y ago

T3RMINATED 4y ago

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omershapira 4y ago

I love the internet dearly