[maxcan]

Github outages are the bored engineer's equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you were in school, full of unbridled joy.

For engaged, happy engineers its the equivalent of getting a surprise snow day when you are grown up and have to go dig your car out of the snow and its a normal day just with extra steps.

[ramigb]

I can be both bored and engaged, don't test me buddy /s

[lysergia]

> equivalent of getting a surprise snow day

Not if you self-host Git

[capableweb]

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/

[chrisseaton]

> Self-hosting everything else GitHub does is harder.

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

[capableweb]

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.

[lionkor]

gitlab

[capableweb]

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.

[lionkor]

fair, i'd love that!

[naikrovek]

Not really. I'd rather be getting stuff done. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit: oopsie I misread.

[mort96]

Would you characterise yourself as a bored engineer?

[naikrovek]

today I might characterize myself as someone who made a mistake while reading a comment, and replied to the mistaken understanding instead of the intended one.