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by dbingham 1129 days ago
Yeah, Gitlab has had its share of downtime. Github has had shockingly little until the last year or two. These things come and go.

Of course, if this continues happening it may be time for the OSS community seriously consider migrating en masse.

[Edit to fix grammar - thanks for the corrections!]

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Apologies to be pedantic, I think it's en masse.
FWIW the typical phrase is "en masse" (which is French). The English translation is "in mass".
The English translation would be something like, “all together, at the same time”. “In mass” isn’t an English idiom.
"en masse" is the term used in English as well.
Yep, just noting for anyone who may not realize that "in mass" isn't really a thing in English.

As you note, en masse is common — enough so that you even don't need to italicize it (although you can).

If you're brave enough, you can italicize whatever you want.
Indeed. Tips on when you should italicize foreign words in English writing: https://proofed.com/writing-tips/should-you-italicize-foreig...