Comment by joshuahedlund
6 hours ago
Given that the outages are caused by record traffic, so far they are only cooked in the Yogi Berra sense of “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded”
6 hours ago
Given that the outages are caused by record traffic, so far they are only cooked in the Yogi Berra sense of “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded”
Gets me wondering… if I get used to the fact that some location is busy, I stop going there. Other people might do the same. Could this create a detectable wavy signal over time? People stop going because it’s busy. It stops being busy. People go because it’s not busy. Repeat. Is this a known phenomenon?
Closest thing would be the “El Farol Bar problem”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Farol_Bar_problem
Many people think we're on the path to having separate webs for AIs and humans. This may be the beginning of that.
As much as I would like that to happen, I don't think it is at all possible until we solve the "is a human" problem.
Random AI slop code pushers don't pay the bills. Traffic isn't revenue.
I've started suggesting to my CTO that we move to something else because we do pay the Github bills and yet we are also affected by other people's activity. Avoiding that is not a hard engineering problem for an alternative.
A world where a record amount of code is pushed to GH but a large amount of paying customers leave would be "cooked"
Yeah I don't feel bad for Microsoft, but I don't feel bad for people who keep paying them for it either. This has been going on forever now. Nothing will happen until people start leaving. I don't honestly understand why so much shit is on GitHub when there are so many alternatives, anyways. It's fucking git! Can't people do or try anything different, ever?
People are on GitHub because it's the cool thing to do, and there is no concept of anything else that could matter.