alt Hacker NewsI’m certain I’m up there in the 1% of users, or close to it, that are writing software daily in terms of consistent prolonged volume of work and work that is actually used by others over the past nearly 20 years based on user activity statistics I’ve collected.
I, too, am a fairly, but not immediate early user of GitHub. Despite GitHub’s poor metrics, I am still shipping, because writing software doesn’t require GitHub.
Hashimoto’s comments sound disturbed and I hope he finds some peace, but if he wasn’t who he was and you read these comments, you’d think this person had a problem. So, I think he does.
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> because writing software doesn’t require GitHub.
If your workflow doesn't need the features that have had reliability problems over recent times (which includes some of the basic collaborative features), is GitHub even the right tool for your task? If not, then your judgement of others for complaining about the issues is presumptuous to the point of being somewhat obnoxious.
"Hashimoto’s comments sound disturbed and I hope he finds some peace..."
You don't often see the completely unhinged ad hominem 'faux mental health concern' segway here on Hacker News to try and paint someone as 'disturbed'. Thought that was mainly a Reddit thing people do.
>if he wasn’t who he was and you read these comments, you’d think this person had a problem. So, I think he does.
Honestly, I thought you were demeaning him to defend GitHub. But after reading the article, it does seem like his emotional reaction is not aligned with the situation. Just saying it openly for others who get the same impression I did.
That said, GitHub can be a full time job for many (handling and responding issues, reviews, and so on, depending on the size of the project). It's also not unheard of to have PR descriptions and comments as part of documentation rather than commit messages. So GitHub's availability is certainly extremely disruptive to many companies.
> I, too, am a fairly, but not immediate early user of GitHub. Despite GitHub’s poor metrics, I am still shipping, because writing software doesn’t require GitHub.
GitHub’s downtime is a problem for issue tracking, PR merging, contributing and reviewing PRs, and more.
Your exact point was already pre-addressed in the blog post because it’s so predictable that some would completely miss the point. GitHub’s downtime isn’t about stopping you from writing code on your own machine.
> Hashimoto’s comments sound disturbed and I hope he finds some peace, but if he wasn’t who he was and you read these comments, you’d think this person had a problem. So, I think he does.
What a gross ad hominem about someone’s mental health. Please don’t do this.
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„I don’t use any of GitHub’s non-git features, so if you use them you have a problem”