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"...leaving the platform virtually unusable for those who remained." Sorry, but what? I use it everyday and it's fine. Oh I'm sure some of the author's favorit

"...leaving the platform virtually unusable for those who remained." Sorry, but what? I use it everyday and it's fine. Oh I'm sure some of the author's favorite people decided to switch to mastadon or blue sky or something, but to claim the platform is wildly destabilized is hilariously hyperbolic.

richbell 3y ago
Things do regularly break, though. Outgoing links were broken a few days ago.
- rvz 3y ago
  GitHub has 100M+ DAUs and falls over more times than Twitter / X does or any other social network each week. But of course the media obviously doesn't report GitHub falling apart or it being 'a dying social network'. A single speed bump or hiccup at Twitter / X and it is all over the news with the hyperboles and silly articles like this one. It's clear that a different standard of uptime and stability is being applied only to Twitter / X since Elon bought it. Quite a weird obsessive delusion for tabloid journalists such as the Verge to continue screaming the so-called death of Twitter / X since last year they all predicted for it to collapse a year ago and here we are a year later, it is still standing.
  - richbell 3y ago
    That's a bizarre comparison. GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.
    - rvz 3y ago
      > That's a bizarre comparison. It isn't and it is a valid comparison. > GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies. You forgot that all of this is being run by Microsoft which makes this excuse even worse than Twitter / X's situation given the streams, spaces, videos, and over 500M+ posts per day. I would expect GitHub to have a much better record in uptime with the help of Microsoft after the acquisition. It has gotten even worse.
      - richbell 3y ago
        > It isn't and it is a valid comparison. You can say that but that doesn't make it true. GitHub is a massively complex behemoth orders of magnitude larger than Twitter, it simply isnt comparable. It also regularly gets shat on for its poor uptime.
        rvz 3y ago
        It is comparable and creating more excuses to defend GitHub’s horrible uptime especially with access to Microsoft’s resources is quite frankly laughable. With Microsoft, GitHub should have a far higher uptime than Twitter / X. But GitHub even has a worse track record of uptime with less users than Twitter / X does. With MS footing the bill, there really is zero excuses for GitHub falling over frequently and deservedly gets shat on under that same standard of uptime that Twitter / X is under.
- stolenmerch 3y ago
  In 2015 The Atlantic wrote a glowing puff piece on how unstable Twitter was as if it was almost cute. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-story-behind-twitters-fail-whale/384313/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s... Now if outgoing links are broken for a few minutes it's "proof" of Elon's incompetence and how he's probably right-wing or something. If you don't believe that read the article The Year Twitter Died. C'mon.
  - oeta 3y ago
    Despite any personal opinions, it seems these "journalists" lack objectivity, resorting to copying and pasting others' viewpoints to shape the narrative.
Stokley 3y ago
I agree that it feels like these press outlets have such a huge bias against Elon. And I definitely think that post-acquisition, the site has had more eyes on it than since the Arab Spring. But I'm not sure if the platform can get out from under its monetary issues

richbell 3y ago

Things do regularly break, though. Outgoing links were broken a few days ago.

rvz 3y ago
GitHub has 100M+ DAUs and falls over more times than Twitter / X does or any other social network each week. But of course the media obviously doesn't report GitHub falling apart or it being 'a dying social network'. A single speed bump or hiccup at Twitter / X and it is all over the news with the hyperboles and silly articles like this one. It's clear that a different standard of uptime and stability is being applied only to Twitter / X since Elon bought it. Quite a weird obsessive delusion for tabloid journalists such as the Verge to continue screaming the so-called death of Twitter / X since last year they all predicted for it to collapse a year ago and here we are a year later, it is still standing.
- richbell 3y ago
  That's a bizarre comparison. GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.
  - rvz 3y ago
    > That's a bizarre comparison. It isn't and it is a valid comparison. > GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies. You forgot that all of this is being run by Microsoft which makes this excuse even worse than Twitter / X's situation given the streams, spaces, videos, and over 500M+ posts per day. I would expect GitHub to have a much better record in uptime with the help of Microsoft after the acquisition. It has gotten even worse.
    - richbell 3y ago
      > It isn't and it is a valid comparison. You can say that but that doesn't make it true. GitHub is a massively complex behemoth orders of magnitude larger than Twitter, it simply isnt comparable. It also regularly gets shat on for its poor uptime.
      - rvz 3y ago
        It is comparable and creating more excuses to defend GitHub’s horrible uptime especially with access to Microsoft’s resources is quite frankly laughable. With Microsoft, GitHub should have a far higher uptime than Twitter / X. But GitHub even has a worse track record of uptime with less users than Twitter / X does. With MS footing the bill, there really is zero excuses for GitHub falling over frequently and deservedly gets shat on under that same standard of uptime that Twitter / X is under.
stolenmerch 3y ago
In 2015 The Atlantic wrote a glowing puff piece on how unstable Twitter was as if it was almost cute. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-story-behind-twitters-fail-whale/384313/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s... Now if outgoing links are broken for a few minutes it's "proof" of Elon's incompetence and how he's probably right-wing or something. If you don't believe that read the article The Year Twitter Died. C'mon.
- oeta 3y ago
  Despite any personal opinions, it seems these "journalists" lack objectivity, resorting to copying and pasting others' viewpoints to shape the narrative.

Stokley 3y ago

I agree that it feels like these press outlets have such a huge bias against Elon. And I definitely think that post-acquisition, the site has had more eyes on it than since the Arab Spring. But I'm not sure if the platform can get out from under its monetary issues