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How exactly can you run GitHub or Slack locally? Their entire purpose is being a place where people can communicate, they need to be centrally available on a ne
by marcellus23 1y ago
How exactly can you run GitHub or Slack locally? Their entire purpose is being a place where people can communicate, they need to be centrally available on a network to have any function at all.
- thw_9a83c 1y ago> How exactly can you run GitHub or Slack locally? I meant locally as a company.
- marcellus23 1y agoHow does that solve the downtime issue? In my experience company-run instances tend to go down just as often, if not more often.
- thw_9a83c 1y agoThe experience may differ from company to company, but I was talking about the backup system.
- zahlman 1y ago> or have similar emergency backup tools ready to run locally Developers used to share code through version control before there were websites to serve the "upstream", and they used to communicate without bespoke messenger apps. Their former ways of doing so still work just fine.