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verdvermyesterday at 8:37 PM1 replyview on HN

It's an uptime chart and shouldn't need to show much more than the 99% range.

If you started the y-axis at zero, you wouldn't see much of anything. Logarithmic scale would still be a bit much imo.


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otterleyyesterday at 8:59 PM

> If you started the y-axis at zero, you wouldn't see much of anything.

That's... kind of my point.

As a reliability engineer, I'm disappointed in GitHub's 99.5% availability periods, especially as they impact paying customers. On the other hand, most users are non-paying users, and a 99.5% availability for a free service seems to me to be a reasonable tradeoff relative to the potential cost of improving reliability for them.