Comment by Pet_Ant
4 months ago
Well some say 'all publicity is good publicity', I think in this case it has hurt MinIO more than anything as far as public adoption is concerned.
4 months ago
Well some say 'all publicity is good publicity', I think in this case it has hurt MinIO more than anything as far as public adoption is concerned.
I believe it's too early to judge public adoption. Let's see in a few years if it degrades somehow. For now, they jumped from 55,880 to 56,319 GitHub stars in one day.
From the product side, I don't see how this should affect new adopters who didn't read the hn post yesterday
GitHub stars are useless metric.
If stars are useless here, I see that only one contributor is left after all that happened yesterday (505 to 504).
It's not changing the fact that it's too premature to reflect on public adoption at this moment.
Almost as useless as docker pulls, and MinIO claims both as vanity metrics.
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Pure anecdata: the fact that this is happening at all has us (at work) looking for alternatives. Once we finalize on the best one we'll swap out MinIO permanently. I can't imagine we're the only ones, but who knows?
If you use this tech, perhaps you could explain what the real issue is behind dropping Docker? I mean, it's still AGPL licensed — why can't you use it from source?
In other words, what is the significant difference for your team that's worth changing the stack and navigating through the uncertainty of an alternative product?
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