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by voxtech 1484 days ago
This claim is outrageous- if disabling sourcehut is a valid workaround, then google should end the refresh behavior on the proxy since it isn't providing any valuable service. If the proxy provides a valuable service, then disabling sourcehut would degrade service for sourcehut users.
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That logic doesn't even cohere. If Github and Gitlab can sustain more aggressive queries from the module proxy, they may have fresher cache entries in that proxy. That's what being more capable gets you. The Go team isn't obligated to operate at the lowest common denominator of all source hosts.

If the Go team's workaround was to make sr.ht not viable for Go modules, that would be deeply problematic. But it isn't; in fact, nobody who's upset about this seems to be able to describe what the Go team's workaround would even impact. Can you?