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Microsoft is able to keep GitHub and npmjs.com online, despite all the DDoS attacks. It requires a huge amount of servers, bandwidth etc, to have all the repos,

by xet7 2y ago

Microsoft is able to keep GitHub and npmjs.com online, despite all the DDoS attacks. It requires a huge amount of servers, bandwidth etc, to have all the repos, downloads, etc online. Having those online makes coding FOSS possible. There are some FOSS alternatives to GitHub, but they have had more problems staying online.

AlexandrB 2y ago
FOSS existed and worked fine before Github and even before Git itself. It's certainly a convenient tool, but not irreplaceable. Git is also well suited to being used in a decentralized way (with no centrally hosted master) compared to older VCSs like SVN. Again, less convenient but not the end of the world.
- eviks 2y ago
  Git is not well suited since it lacks one of the most important part of collaboration - communication
  - User23 2y ago
    Git was designed to be used with email, which adequately solved for communication and decentralization (at the time at least).
    - sqeaky 2y ago
      And even if it doesn't wouldn't to Dedicated communication tool solve communication better than a dedicated revision control system? What happened to using multiple applications each best suited for their domain?
      - eviks 2y ago
        Life happend and led to the concentrated "best suited github.com app for the domain" which spawns sister articles to the one posted here
    - eviks 2y ago
      it was just as inadequate at the time as it is now
skeledrew 2y ago
I wouldn't count things they've acquired; those products/services were already running, and all they need to do it not add too much crap and/or keep the servers running.
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iLemming 2y ago
> Microsoft is able to keep GitHub and npmjs.com online Somehow they were also capable of killing Skype, Nokia, and Yammer, among some other things. They've also made LinkedIn less user-friendly and overwhelmed with ads. GitHub (I feel) never had so much downtime before the acquisition. I'm dreading the day when they finally make something so stupid that would drive hundreds of thousands to move their repos someplace else.

by xet7 2y ago

AlexandrB 2y ago

FOSS existed and worked fine before Github and even before Git itself. It's certainly a convenient tool, but not irreplaceable. Git is also well suited to being used in a decentralized way (with no centrally hosted master) compared to older VCSs like SVN. Again, less convenient but not the end of the world.

eviks 2y ago
Git is not well suited since it lacks one of the most important part of collaboration - communication
- User23 2y ago
  Git was designed to be used with email, which adequately solved for communication and decentralization (at the time at least).
  - sqeaky 2y ago
    And even if it doesn't wouldn't to Dedicated communication tool solve communication better than a dedicated revision control system? What happened to using multiple applications each best suited for their domain?
    - eviks 2y ago
      Life happend and led to the concentrated "best suited github.com app for the domain" which spawns sister articles to the one posted here
  - eviks 2y ago
    it was just as inadequate at the time as it is now

skeledrew 2y ago

I wouldn't count things they've acquired; those products/services were already running, and all they need to do it not add too much crap and/or keep the servers running.

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iLemming 2y ago

> Microsoft is able to keep GitHub and npmjs.com online Somehow they were also capable of killing Skype, Nokia, and Yammer, among some other things. They've also made LinkedIn less user-friendly and overwhelmed with ads. GitHub (I feel) never had so much downtime before the acquisition. I'm dreading the day when they finally make something so stupid that would drive hundreds of thousands to move their repos someplace else.