Comment by reconnecting

4 months ago

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

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elAhmo  4 months ago

GitHub stars are useless metric.

  • reconnecting  4 months ago

    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.

  • msarrel  4 months ago

    Almost as useless as docker pulls, and MinIO claims both as vanity metrics.

    • reconnecting  4 months ago

      OK, have a look at GitHub contributors metric. 404 today, 405 yesterday.

      Just to clarify, I'm not affiliated with or protecting MinIO, I don't know anything about this software. But it seems to me that there's some overreaction about Docker here, and in reality it is highly possible that this decision might not affect the product the way it's being discussed these days.

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aerostable_slug  4 months ago

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?

  • reconnecting  4 months ago

    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?

    • aerostable_slug  4 months ago

      Part of it is the trend of MinIO walking away from community customers. That to me is not a good sign, especially when it comes to project longevity. Do projects that do this kind of thing continue to flourish and thrive? I'm not sure that they do.

      It's hard to feel good about remaining hitched to a horse that continues to send out red flags, especially when there are other good options out there for us.

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