alt Hacker NewsThese numbers should have been in the blog post, not the graphs that are present.
> What's the question here, you don't believe growth is currently exponential, or do you think it shouldn't be hard to scale
I think you're putting words in my mouth here; I didn't say either of those things. I'm saying that this blog post is a meaningless platitude when the github stability issues predate this, and that all this post says is "we hear you're having issues".
Sorry if I misread your intent.
I just think their charts, taken at face value, show substantially the same thing (for PRs, commits, new repos).
Either those charts are a bald-faced lie (the tweet could be as well) or there is no way for that chart to be something else.
The only way to fake exponential growth like that would be to use an inverse log scale (which would be a bald-faced lie).
It doesn't even really matter what's the y-axis baseline, unless we really think growth was huge in 2020, then cratered to zero by 2023, now back to the previous normal.
As for the rest of the post, I do think it's panic mode platitudes. But I honestly don't know what I'd write instead that's better.
You can already see people complaining loudly where they instead of "we'll do better" decided to limit usage.