4 ms·

How is this an interesting news ? Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status (https://s

• loginalready 13y ago
  Because it just brought a lot of people's work to a screeching halt. People who are massively represented here on HN.
• RutZap 13y ago
  Probably because they said they are under a large ddos attack? :-? I wonder why would someone do something like this? It's not like github is evil or anything... it's just a really cool and useful tool for coders. It helped a lot of people better their skills and knowledge. Why would someone attack it? (I am genuinely interested in this as I can't think of a reason someone would do something like this)
  • negrit 13y ago
    No they dont. The link just says, github is down, nothing else, an interesting news would be a link to the twitter post.
    • barrkel 13y ago
      https://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages
  • AYBABTME 13y ago
    You're not the first to wonder ^^ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866047
• danabramov 13y ago
  Well, this brought me here.
• sspiff 13y ago
  It's the main hosting service for most developers' source code and a large part of how many open source projects organize, communicate and work. I guess that makes it a tiny bit more relevant than yet another post about how some mediocre entrepreneur thinks we should all live our lives.
  • reidrac 13y ago
    You didn't get his point. The submitted URL doesn't provide useful information, https://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages could have been used instead. May be when the link was submitted the official information wasn't available. OK, then just wait for something useful because if the site is down and I'm affected I can see that myself, I don't need to read HN. EDIT: oh, looks like the original comment was edited.
    • sspiff 13y ago
      Well, in that case, sure. His statement was a little broad (or even ambiguous) and I think my interpretation was the most obvious/straightforward one.
  • pjmlp 13y ago
    > It's the main hosting service for most developers' source code I seriously doubt that.
    • sspiff 13y ago
      In the hacker/open source community, I'm fairly sure it is.
      • pjmlp 13y ago
        Among HN readers maybe, but the hacker/open source community is much more than that.
        • DavidBradbury 13y ago
• Blahah 13y ago
  many people on HN will also find it useful to know that github is down for everyone (rather than just them)
• harrytuttle 13y ago
  Because tragically, most people have all their eggs in one github shaped basket. Git on it's own doesn't suffer from the issue of scary downtime (occasionally repo corruption...), but people have bought deeply into the value-added ecosystem that github throws over the top of it. It's a show-stopper for them.
  • sspiff 13y ago
    I have some of my code on GitHub and some on Bitbucket (for the free private repos), all of my code on my Dropbox and it's synced to 4 different machines. However, the library I'm working with is hosted on GitHub, their doxygen is on GitHub, their wiki is on GitHub, and I don't have a local version of either of those, which is now pretty annoying.
    • harrytuttle 13y ago
      Very true. This is a major irritation. I rather like Golang because of stuff like this as you can run your own local documentation server and stuff. It's just a neat self-contained package.
      • AYBABTME 13y ago
        Docs, tests, profiler, race detector, linter, build system. Go ships with everything. I love Go.
• Dirlewanger 13y ago
  It's not, really. But I assume a good number of us have jobs that depend on it, and out of the big sites out there they are out quite frequent. And then like past threads this one will fill up with people proclaiming they're done with Github and having enough of their shit and looking for alternatives...
• shocks 13y ago
  It's a nice reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.