Post #4159670
2026-07-20 08:39 UTC
This post and everyone disagreeing with it are all wrong.
We should expect our software to have 100% uptime, even volunteer projects. This should not be achieved by demanding volunteers work unreasonable hours every day, but by building a software ecosystem that makes building a service that has 100% uptime *trivially easy*. It should be possible to spin up a website and have it survive millions of hits per day using at most a few servers in a closet with load balancing that can survive one of them crashing.
Bringing degrowth into this is insulting. If volunteers can't keep a website up 100% of the time, then we, as programmers, have utterly failed at our jobs. The response shouldn't be "only infinite growth would demand 100% uptime, we should just give up wanting that at all", the response should be to MAKE THINGS BETTER SO IT'S POSSIBLE FOR VOLUNTEERS TO ENSURE 100% UPTIME.
https://equestria.social/@joepie91@slightly.tech/116948029916864531
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@interru@hooves.social 2026-07-20 11:41
@cloudhop@equestria.social What you are missing is that the programmers are also volunteers. I don't think blaming specific parties is helpful. I'm certain the vast majority of volunteers (including programmers) are doing their best to improve things.