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irishcoffee 31 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

Neither does GitHub, and for whatever reason everyone and their cousin uses it still. :)

serf 31 days ago [–]

everyone uses github because everyone uses github. it's relying strictly on social effect right now.

bigstrat2003 31 days ago | [–]

Well yeah, obviously. I think the point was that uptime is not the only concern, and that a service sufficiently attractive in other ways can get people to overlook a lack of reliability.

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