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> equivalent of getting a surprise snow day

Not if you self-host Git

Self-hosting Git is easy, throw up a ssh server and point git to it.

Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder. Which is why they are building out all of those things, they don't want people to move to other places so easily.

Hopefully these constant outages makes more developers pissed off that issues are not stored in git as well, and start working on tooling to solve this shitty problem once and for all.

P2P/Local First software for everyone! \o/

> Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder.

You can self-host the whole of GitHub can’t you?

As far as I know, you can self-host an enterprise version of GitHub, but it'll still be available from one location (the server you deploy it on). I cannot run it locally and federate with my colleagues instances for example, just like I can with Git.

gitlab

GitLab is not P2P/Local First software like Git itself. It suffers from exactly the same problem as GitHub, reliance on a central server (which is run either by the company making the product, or by your own team).

What I'm talking about is being able to access everything like issues, wikis, PRs and whatever, even when you're 100% offline.

fair, i'd love that!

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