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^ Comment on the Nth 100+ GitHub Down thread (every thread is like that).

Maybe everyone here is just using it as an excuse to chatter about forges or GitHub being down too much etc. and it has no impact. But if it does and people are honestly fretting they can mirror their repos. Then no one needs to worry that much (except for their cursed CI setups) the next time it happens.

And that’s a benefit of peer-to-peer repos right there.



github is more than just the repo, though. Issue tracking, releases, doc hosting, CI, pull reviews, and so on.


You claimed that most projects don’t want/need decentralized development and I gave you an example of how mirroring can make a project more robust. You’re welcome.




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