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Unicorns at GitHub
- joshdotsmith 13y agoThis always seems to come at the least convenient time for me, which is indicative of GitHub being a single point of failure in my workflow. Not good.
- pekk 13y agoIt's a distributed VCS, so distribute your repos? Obviously dependence on a hosted issue tracker has its pluses and minuses...
- kenneth_reitz 13y agoI've been telling them for years, they need Git-backed issues.
- DrJ 13y agothis.
- arbutus 13y agoUnsure what unicorns have to do with anything here.
- dmamills 13y agohttps://status.github.com/messages https://status.github.com/messages 17:31 UTC
- newsoundwave 13y agoGithub repository web pages when down show an angry unicorn. If it's still down, here's an example: https://github.com/github/linguist https://github.com/github/linguist
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- leeoniya 13y agoUnicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby that they use https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn [EDIT] downvotes? really?
- jere 13y agoNothing as far as I can tell. This works just as well: https://status.github.com/?teapots https://status.github.com/?teapots
- leeoniya 13y agoi asked about this < 2 weeks ago, so here goes again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6401411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6401411
- debacle 13y agoA great deal of the novelty associated with HN is that the distractions here (80% of the "content") are good idle reading, seem like they could be vaguely related to work, and tend to offer a community of self-validation, catharsis, and commisery. If you enjoy the valuable content here on HN, it would be wise for you to learn how to recognize the idle reading and ignore those threads entirely, when possible. I know it's harder of late, as the S/N ratio is slowly approaching zero, but you can't really fight against the tide - there are many more people here on HN that don't share your view (myself excluded). Sorry.
- leeoniya 13y agoi'd be inclined to agree with you had the 'idle reading' content been interesting. but it is NOT interesting. github goes down every week, nothing to see here. why is it on the front page? and who exactly is it there for? it's like someone is just out to name-and-shame. competitors maybe?
- debacle 13y agoIdle reading is generally not interesting. Consider your average magazine, even one targeted to your interests - there are probably at most 2 stories that you really want to read in the magazine, and maybe another 5 that you would actually be interested in reading, should you be stuck in the doctor's office or something, but there are probably a further 15 or 20 that you simply have no interest in, and are clearly there to fill space. When you have user generated content, it is much easier to fill any vacuum with content that is not content (this post) than it is to actually create content (very rare) or post or repost the content of others (very common). The people who post these outages are looking for something to talk about. The people who upvote these outages are part of the "culture" of github. The people who participate in the meager discussions are just bored, and nothing more. You should expect to be interested in no more than 20-30% of the content you see on HN on any given day. I anticipate that that number will go down with time.
- dpcx 13y agoWe set up hubot with a github status message. I just wish GH could push the information out, instead of us having to go get it.
- joshdotsmith 13y agoWhat's your hubot script for this? Can you share a link to the GitHub rep-oh wait. That's not gonna work. But seriously, I want this for my HipChat.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- dpcx 13y agohttp://paste2.org/4OyDJknK http://paste2.org/4OyDJknK -- we've got it in our private github repo, but here's the source as well.
- donpdonp 13y agohttps://status.github.com/api/last-message.json https://status.github.com/api/last-message.json thats a useful link to watch, thanks!
- joshuafcole 13y agoThis does sound very useful. I'd strongly consider open sourcing it. The failure has caught me right in the middle of switching gears from one project to another, and I'm basically twiddling my thumbs in the company IRC waiting for it to come back up so I can pull down the requirements.
- dpcx 13y agohttp://paste2.org/4OyDJknK http://paste2.org/4OyDJknK -- we've got it in our private github repo, but here's the source as well.
- AndyKelley 13y agothis is not interesting news
- donpdonp 13y agoif there were talk of how and why github is down, that would be interesting.
- dominotw 13y agoUsing github as your oauth provider for logins is turning out to be a really bad idea for me.
- prottmann 13y agoIts time for a distributed oauth with different provider.
- steveklabnik 13y agoPersona is what I'm looking at in this space.
- StavrosK 13y agoI absolutely adore Persona. It's a great protocol, and very easy to implement. If anyone here has a web app, please add Persona to it. (I'm not affiliated with Persona/Mozilla at all, etc).
- dybskiy 13y agohttps://login.persona.org/ https://login.persona.org/ is always there for you
- sirkneeland 13y agoThe reign of unicorns just ended a minute ago or so. Back up as of 11:33am PST
- yeukhon 13y ago11% of page build failure is really high. I suppose this has a lot to do with timeout?