alt Hacker NewsThey're claiming a huge increase in traffic due to vibe coded projects. It might just be an excuse, but it certainly seems plausible to me.
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They can claim that...but if you've built a public SaaS before you know the job is not to host the software, it's to put rails around people taking it down. They've had since 2008 to build those rails, and they're just now hitting places that take the service down on the regular?
Yep, definitely more traffic and also more new Github repos being created, with a pretty huge spike the last 2 months [1]
They're claiming a huge increase in traffic due to vibe coded projects. It might just be an excuse, but it certainly seems plausible to me.
I simply do not care.
Customers pay for a service. If they don't get what they paid for, it's perfectly reasonable and normal to go elsewhere.
Why do people on HN keep apologizing on the behalf of trillion-dollar companies?
Probably true. GH Enterprise Cloud is mostly 100% uptime over the past 90 days.
I’d be shocked if this wasn’t the reason.
Could be. But 99% of the repos are static garbage with no PR nor actions.
They mentioned they have some elasticsearch reindexing going to, I would guess they needed to regard or move stuff and something didn't work well. But if I understood it right they mentioned the PRs ES index which they didn't shared proof increased as the number of repos.
It might be anything. It seems they lost huge chunks due to layoffs and structural changes and MS which has the reverse golden Midas touch.
This is just pure speculation but also now there is no reason for MS to keep GH working. They absorbed all code they wanted. Now they can let it burn. Would be even better for them if that happened