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Comment by keyle | Hacker News Reader

I don't know if they keep changing the text updates with a slightly different version to

- prove it's a human that typed it

- there is code the prevents repeating twice the same message

either way it's entertaining... But it's Monday morning in Australia and we need to release! (yep we do this via pr/tagging etc.)

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I like how the times are unevenly spaced too haha. I'm imagining a bunch of devs sitting at home in their pajamas (Sunday night) talking on Slack as they try to fix the site and every time there's a lull one person's like "hey we should probably refresh the status again".

It is to ensure that the updates get mirrored onto twitter, where exact duplicates can't be posted.

Isn't it enough to delete the older tweet? Or maybe just add a timestamp to the message.

Off-Topic: If it's not possible to write a twit with the exact text from a deleted twit, then a way to prove someone wrote a twit and then deleted it would be to have them try to write it again.

Deleting tweets is a terrible workaround. Once github start tweeting and people start linking to those tweets they can't go ahead and delete them 50 minutes later..

Re: off-topic: You have to do it fast. You certainly can tweet a lot of identical tweets if you aren't in a hurry: there is a "Rock in the forest"[1] that tweets "Nothing happened today" (in Russian) every day for several years, and most of the time the text is exactly the same. Interestingly enough, the time of tweet varies widely from day to day, so it looks like a human or a program specifically made to imitate one.

[1] https://twitter.com/kamen_v_lesu

They can't alternate?

For several hours it was alternating.

If you include a unique hashtag, would the message be considered unique? In that case, you could include the epoch timestamp as a hashtag :-)

Or even just prefix the tweet with the update ordinal.

https://github-status-generator.com/

I was thinking this guy just be from Australia to be annoyed tis much, and turns out he is!

> But it's Monday morning in Australia and we need to release!

Ironic isn't it? The whole point of git was to be distributed, and yet we're at a place where a bunch of companies can't deploy software when a single git provider is down. I myself am in the same boat. Sure, I could reconfigure for a different repo, but is it even worth the effort?

I've seen some that are spaced at regular intervals with very subtle changes between messages, none of which actually say anything. I really like Github's messages since they seem like they're actually being updated by a human.

Given the latest update is "We are currently in the later stages of a restore operation, with the aim of serving fully consistent data within the next 2 hours", I can only assume someone at GH read your comment!

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