I marvel at the proficiency with which Microsoft tears down every piece of software it touches nowadays.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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Edit: seems like they fixed it, it works for me
I'll get downvoted for this, but I think they take good care of github and Minecraft. As for the rest though... not so good.
If with "good care" you mean "the core functionality is up and running most times", yes
My parents took good care of me, then.
Please take better care of yourself than your parents did! You deserve to feel taken care of <3
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I haven’t played Minecraft for a while, but I was under the impression that Microsoft was progressively turning the Bedrock version into a microtransaction hellscape. If I’d have to reluctantly commend Microsoft for anything, I’d rather go for Visual Studio Code.
Bedrock indeed, but you didn't even have Bedrock edition before Microsoft, so you can't really say MS fucked it over since it was always kinda bad. Java has been pretty nice and the "big content updates" direction under Microsoft really rejuvenated the game.
It's nice that they brought Minecraft to practically every device. It sucks that they didn't replicate redstone
Thats because Microsoft has refused to change anything meaningful, there are new mobs but they dont drop anything of value and there are new biomes but the blocks are all decorative. Microsoft knows they'll screw it up so they only make surface level changes.
Oh, yeah bedrock sucks. Java edition is still great though. And yes, VSCode is good as well.
The bedrock version is bad, but they have recently given everyone that owned one version of the game the other version for free and now sell both versions of the game for the price of one
... Didn't they revoke the Minecraft licenses people purchased because they didn't manage to migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts in a short amount of time?
Lost access to my OG account because I didn't find out about this until a month after it was too late.
People were given three years to migrate, I wouldn't quite call that short
People have absolutely taken a multi-year break from Minecraft before.
Really though, why is there a time limit at all? Google still allows you to convert old Youtube accounts to Google accounts, why can't Microsoft do the same?
On top of that, even if you did manage to migrate your account, the M$ Minecraft accounts get deleted without warning after some time (2 years?) of inactivity. Guess how I found that out.
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Oh yeah, Minecraft fans will tell you just how much they love their handling of it...
As a Minecraft player, as long as they leave java edition alone I'm fine with it.
They deliberately removed code search for not logged in users almost immediately. Just recently they removed cloning without an account, so now updating my computer requires signing in to github.
They have been awful stewards.
Look what they just did to Notepad!!!
MONSTERS!!!!!
My company owns their infrastructure and we don't have issues like this and our production servers are working like oiled machines and yet they want to move to 3rd party cloud services for reasons that have yet to be explained
a brief conversation:
Cloud good, very good for dynamic sizing up and down.
but sir we don't need to scale up and down for our business.
but cloud good.
I'm worried that when the bean counters see the price difference between AWS and self hosted stuff they'll find AWS more expensive and we will have to deliver a year's work for 10 scaled agile teams again, but in our machines
I'm guess you have a fully staffed infrastructure team team, so the reason that has yet to be explained is that they want to downsize that team.
We use cloud services because we have never had a fully staffed infrastructure team.
The explanation is guys in marketing buying fancy lunches and rounds of golf for the guys in C-Suite (Source: A tired IT admin that has had to talk his management team off of this cliff due to fancy tech demo dinners from unsolicited cloud/software companies)
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Reliance on external services to build and test code is absolutely braindead design
Sometimes our internal CI tools break and I can't build either. I think GitHub actions syntax is actually valid in forgejo as well so I don't really think it's a problem.
No, that's actually genius.
How else are you supposed to get random paid break-time, which the boss can't stop you from even if a crunch is going on?
It's not like internal build servers are 100% reliable, scaleable and cheap though. Personally I've found cloud based build tools to be just a better experience as a dev.
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This thread pivots hard from version control jokes into a somber discussion of the future of Minecraft.
I have found my people. You all are amazing.
What do they mean by "Carry On."?
It's already over. The guy in the left had both, the High Ground and the higher posture.
He's liable to get top-heavy and just fall over. Guy on the right has a nice center of gravity.
He sacrificed sure-footing for a killing stroke.
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ackshually you can run most of the CI locally
Don’t tell the boss, jerk.
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People forget git is a DVCS, you can send PRs to each other without relying on Github.
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Interesting - I've been retired a few years but the way we used github was git commit, git push, usually at the end of the day. How has the workflow changed so people constantly need it to do any work?
Unfortunately, the ecosystem around github has evolved so that most folks centralize their testing and deployment code into being executed on github infrastructure. Frankly a perversion of the decentralized design of git.
Fortunately for my team, it doesn't matter because our process requires stuff that can't be done from github infrastructure anyway, so we have kept the automatic testing and deployment on premise even as github is the 'canonical' place for the code to live.
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GitHub added CI/CD pipeline functionality (called GitHub Actions). If it's down I can't merge code or deploy code anywhere since company policy requires analysis builds to run, and our deploys use the GitHub Actions to ship the code.
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My general contribution to the conversation is GitHub should have a donation system. Once a week, some kind of donation raffle happens, and the winner gets GitHub taken down for "reasons" for 4 hours, then 5, 6, 8. Microsoft profits more, and it slowly becomes a technology-and-money-induced vacation day.
Or and I know this sounds crazy, we (I actually mean you) collectively agree on laws that gives everyone a couple of paid vacation weeks a year.
There's a reason we value the local development environment.
You can run everything locally, the only use for the cloud environment is for CD.
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It works on my machine!
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