A great deal of the novelty associated with HN is that the distractions here (80% of the "content") are good idle reading, seem like they could be vaguely related to work, and tend to offer a community of self-validation, catharsis, and commisery.
If you enjoy the valuable content here on HN, it would be wise for you to learn how to recognize the idle reading and ignore those threads entirely, when possible. I know it's harder of late, as the S/N ratio is slowly approaching zero, but you can't really fight against the tide - there are many more people here on HN that don't share your view (myself excluded).
i'd be inclined to agree with you had the 'idle reading' content been interesting. but it is NOT interesting. github goes down every week, nothing to see here. why is it on the front page? and who exactly is it there for?
it's like someone is just out to name-and-shame. competitors maybe?
Idle reading is generally not interesting. Consider your average magazine, even one targeted to your interests - there are probably at most 2 stories that you really want to read in the magazine, and maybe another 5 that you would actually be interested in reading, should you be stuck in the doctor's office or something, but there are probably a further 15 or 20 that you simply have no interest in, and are clearly there to fill space.
When you have user generated content, it is much easier to fill any vacuum with content that is not content (this post) than it is to actually create content (very rare) or post or repost the content of others (very common).
The people who post these outages are looking for something to talk about. The people who upvote these outages are part of the "culture" of github. The people who participate in the meager discussions are just bored, and nothing more.
You should expect to be interested in no more than 20-30% of the content you see on HN on any given day. I anticipate that that number will go down with time.
the problem is that these 'filler' posts are manually curated to the front page. HN is plenty interesting and active without this noise. why should i 'live with' quality degradation over time, especially in a curated medium?
This does sound very useful. I'd strongly consider open sourcing it. The failure has caught me right in the middle of switching gears from one project to another, and I'm basically twiddling my thumbs in the company IRC waiting for it to come back up so I can pull down the requirements.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 81.1 ms ] threadObviously dependence on a hosted issue tracker has its pluses and minuses...
https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
[EDIT] downvotes? really?
https://status.github.com/?teapots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6401411
If you enjoy the valuable content here on HN, it would be wise for you to learn how to recognize the idle reading and ignore those threads entirely, when possible. I know it's harder of late, as the S/N ratio is slowly approaching zero, but you can't really fight against the tide - there are many more people here on HN that don't share your view (myself excluded).
Sorry.
it's like someone is just out to name-and-shame. competitors maybe?
When you have user generated content, it is much easier to fill any vacuum with content that is not content (this post) than it is to actually create content (very rare) or post or repost the content of others (very common).
The people who post these outages are looking for something to talk about. The people who upvote these outages are part of the "culture" of github. The people who participate in the meager discussions are just bored, and nothing more.
You should expect to be interested in no more than 20-30% of the content you see on HN on any given day. I anticipate that that number will go down with time.
But seriously, I want this for my HipChat.
thats a useful link to watch, thanks!
(I'm not affiliated with Persona/Mozilla at all, etc).