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tomw1808 • today at 3:57 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Things can go wrong, but really, its been a lot and we're normalizing that to an unhealthy degree...

I wonder if it was down that much, if users would get credits the way we pay when we use the services - its kind of ridiculous for a critical service to be down that much and all we do is "ah okay, its just github". Like, as if that was normal to be down that much...

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zaik • today at 4:13 PM

I think the authors of SMTP had a healthy attitude towards server uptimes:

   Retries continue until the message is transmitted or the sender gives
   up; the give-up time generally needs to be at least 4-5 days.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.4....
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thinkingtoilet • today at 5:01 PM

I don't think it's been "normalized". Github uptime is literally a joke in the tech community. They have first mover advantage and a behemoth behind them so they're not going away, but everyone knows how shit it's uptime is. It takes time for organizations to move away from services like this but I would bet anything that many are starting to try to move away, as well as new companies knowing they shouldn't use the service.

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