alt Hacker News> I have.
I skimmed your profile. Working on the infrastructure for a couple mid-tier video games is a cool accomplishment, but equating this to having solved GitHub level scale rings hollow.
GitHub has a couple orders of magnitude more daily active visitors than the games you worked on had at their peak.
You can make valid criticisms of GitHub without trying to reduce their scale or inflate your credentials to create a false equivalence.
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I'm not sure that resorting to personal attacks against the parent commenter for making a legitimate critique is the right, fair, sensible, or mature approach here.
Discarding legitimate criticism based on some self-determined criteria of intellectual superiority isn't a good look. It smacks of elitism and isn't something conducive to a productive and positive community discussion.
It is unhelpful, rude, condescending, and completely fails to address the underlying problem.
Ok, well, I work on systems quite a bit larger than Github, and I think they have a major reliability issue.
"false equivalence" needs an equivalence claim to be false.
I didn't make one. The sentence after "I have" was literally "you could argue the scales are different."
GitHub spent a decade asking the world to host its code with them. They got what they asked for. You don't get to beg everyone to run services for you for ten years and then have "scaling is hard" be the answer. They should be improving, not regressing over time, and they have some of the worlds best engineers and a trillion dollar corporation behind them, they don't need my sympathy.
The original question is still open and nobody's engaging with it.