Comment by uzyn
1 day ago
The security issue aside, seeing more companies push announcements like these on X as the only official source is a trend I'm not sure I like.
I can understand the rationale, this feels lighter and not something that belongs on status.github.com or the blog. Maybe what's actually missing is an official channel for ephemeral stuff on a domain they own, somewhere between a status page and a tweet? Just sharing an observation.
I don't see why this wouldn't fit on status.github.com.
Social media posts were literally called "status updates" at some point.
It is a closed ecosystem, where - as a viewer - you have gated access and - as a publisher - require your viewers to consent to a third-partys rule. Accessibg ststus.github.com has only the terms of GitHub involved, not also Twitter/X/...
As a stock listed company is GitHub or Microsoft not required to disclose such security breaches to their shareholders? As in a stock market communication?
Congratulations (Consolations?) deregulation is exactly what the country voted for. This is literally making the country great again according to some
They need to notify SEC in 4 business days
As much as I dislike X, perhaps the solution is to provide a widget of sorts that can be embedded into the status page (or whatever page). This widget would not require Auth and anyone can see the thread in-situ.
This doesn't need to be X, BTW, but if everyone's gonna use X may as well meet people where they are.
Likely because they don't know enough to make an official announcement. it makes sense to update a social threads rather than keep updating a static page.
Status is for availability.
My understanding is that when it's something that requires user action they'd directly send comms to customers.
I don't think that it's a trend more than OP preferring Twitter as a source which most of us don't
Are you from 2015? Companies have been announcing stuff on Twitter for a decade, and the rest of social media has been regurgitating Twitter posts for almost as long. Newspapers routinely quote Twitter. All that happened before they even renamed it to X.
I’m not saying it’s a good idea. I am saying it somehow became the single source of truth for the Internet with all that entails.
Totally agree but I think that it's fairly common for an enterprise company (like GitHub) to also have a central place that platform publishes these kinds of updates in addition to socials. I think it's odd, personally, that it's literally only been announced on twitter without a link to an announcements page or similar. Lots of enterprises still block crap like twitter and facebook, so it feels goofy to broadcast this _only_ to a source that paying customers may not even be able to access it.
You are kind of saying it's a good idea or at least a totally acceptable one.
You're saying Twitter is famous for being famous, and looking down at someone who expresses dismay at this for being behind the times.
I do not have a Twitter account. You do. It is the cesspool of humanity and one of the reason the Internet has become so shit.
Please try not to contradict my very words to make a point. That’s very Twitter-like of you.
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