Post #1837559
2026-04-29 11:45 UTC
@tastapod
Scale depends on what the graph supposed to show.
If you want to ask "has something changed after MS acquired github?", then this is a *correct* scale. It shows a clear and significant change in uptime (such as MS's inability to maintain github to the industry term "5 9's of reliability").
On the other hand, if the question is "is github up more often than it is down?", then you should show the graph with a scale going to 0.
Yes, one should always check the y axes on the graph. And one should always make the decision on the y axes based on the question at hand.
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@tastapod@mas.to 2026-04-29 13:45
@adredish and this is my point. I'm not defending Microsoft, but: > MS's inability to maintain github to the industry term "5 9's of reliability is just nonsense. - There is no 'industry standard' of 5 9s, that is insanely expensive and a generally undesirable cost/benefit. - After MS acquired GitHub, its usage went up enormously, so you (and I) have no frame of reference to how its previous owners would have handled that growth. Perhaps MS did a great job, we cannot know.