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Took a full 8 years for a Microsoft acquisition to go to shit, which is probably a record. Kudos to the Github team for holding out this long.
by paxys 7mo ago
Took a full 8 years for a Microsoft acquisition to go to shit, which is probably a record. Kudos to the Github team for holding out this long.
- xeonmc 7mo agoHow fast was Skype?
- cm2187 7mo agoMSFT acquired Skype in 2011, so I would say only a few months: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=skype&hl=en-US https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=GB&q=s...
- htrp 7mo agoTo be fair a bunch of this is because the CEO after Nat Friedman (Thomas Dohmke) was pushed out in August 25.
- workfromspace 7mo agoWho was also the last CEO, right? Is this a coincidence?
- carlosft 7mo agoAnd a ton of the top end ruby staff have left. Many of them ended up at shopify. There is a growing about of non ruby/rails code at github, but most of the system that people think of when they think github are ruby/rails.
- ambicapter 7mo agoShopify is on the AI-everything train as well, we'll see how that goes.
- ahartmetz 7mo agoNat Friedman is a grifter who always shows up and says "I'm with these guys" when somebody or something is successful. I don't think that he was responsible for anything good.
- merlindru 7mo agoGitHub has always been incredibly outage riddled no? This is not a MSFT thing
- nine_k 7mo agoI don't remember that happening so much (if ever) in, say, 2016. But the frequency of noticeable incidents seemingly has been rising steadily since around 2023. The Azure migration apparently only exacerbated it.
- gbear605 7mo agoCirca 2019, my office had a bell that we would ring whenever GitHub had an outage, and it was rung several times per week.
- georgel 7mo agoI remember it going down semi-regularly in the 2013+ era, and seeing HN posts about it. Especially if you were using a package manager reliant on GitHub like Cocoapods. It seems to me it is more "impactful" on the dev community now that they have gone past just being a centralized Git server for the team, to being the thing that does deploys and all sorts of other things.
- 0x457 7mo agoI remember seeing unicorn daily and "webhook delivery delayed" weekly. I think it got better, but also they got more traffic, now millions of agents read files separately over and over again. IMO it's much better now.
- bandrami 7mo agoI think having a single 9 of uptime is a relatively new thing even for GH
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- AndroTux 7mo agoI’m still baffled that Minecraft is doing so well, despite the whole Bedrock thing. At this point I think Microsoft just forgot that they bought Mojang.
- 7777332215 7mo agoMinecraft is a trick up their sleeve yet to be used. Manipulate and indoctrinate the youth.
- Biganon 7mo agoIndoctrinated by cubic cows
- PaulKeeble 7mo agoIts had its fair share of outages and outrageous changes that overreach the bounds as well. Its more stable than github is but its had at least 2 sessions of downtime this year that I recall and they were both quite long (day length).
- spauldo 7mo agoThey'd lose a whole lot of users if they killed Java edition, since the modded community is so large. They'd quickly find one of the Minecraft clones reaching feature parity. And there's no good reason for it - it's not like Java is a threat anymore.
- AndroTux 7mo agoExactly. So why isn't Microsoft doing just that? Isn't that how Microsoft usually handles things? Just look at Xbox. They essentially screwed up everything they could and then some.
- cedws 7mo agoIf I remember correctly UK players can no longer chat at all until they verify their ID.
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