so true. At this moment everyone's like, well! This is UNACCEPTABLE. We'll just, we'll just... what, what are you going to do better than github?
Not add new features every week? Seriously, you cannot tell me that you cannot run a minimal version of a git repo service much more stable than that. I blame the need for new shiny stuff.
Ya'll make me laugh. Don't add any features and "This thing is dead, nothing new in years, find an alternative" But a company actively adds new features their customers are asking for and you're upset that they're adding new features.
Pick a lane.
I know the comments of these posts before I even open them. HN is an echo chamber of predictability.
I'd be interested to see if there is any correlation there.
Although I guess the benefit is that the CTO gets a psychological lift of looking over Jeremy from IT's shoulder when he tries to fix the issue rather than being at the mercy of some engineers which the company can't fire.
Some wiz-bang new graduates calling themselves Engineers probably haven't a clue - sure, but for everyone else, you probably still have folks employed that did just that on a professional level.
It's not hard - and often it's less expensive. Particularly for a turn-key paid product like Github Enterprise or GitLab.
I've been running self-hosted software, and GitLab in particularly, for over a decade at various jobs.
It almost never goes down. It fact, its up way way way more often that GitHub!