The so what is that the majority of people on HN are developers and the majority of them use Github either personally or with their teams. So a major outage is costing potentially millions of dollars in potentially lost developer time. If you calculate an average hourly of just $50 and a developer loses 20 minutes. Then that outage costs $17 x the number of affected developers. That's a pretty big loss.

I'm reading HN right now because I can't manage pull requests and do code reviews of my distributed team's code. So I'm just spinning in my chair.

That's the so-what.

You can't pull code from another node, i.e another developer? Git is distributed, if you want centralised source control use Perforce or SVN or something.

You may want to reread the comment. It's more than being able to commit and pull via the command line.

sure, and I can build a commenting and pull request system while I'm at it. It's highly inefficient to change workflow for an outage that might not last an hour.

yes you can pull from another node. you can also push to another node.

Github is under ddos at least once a month, how is this still a news worth upvoting here?