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Still no one is explaining a workflow that requires github to be up.

This was a genuine question. I have no doubt that my usage is different from yours, and I appreciate the opportunity to learn. Perhaps I can do things better, and you can be the one to teach me.

I don't care about the downvote(s), but I do care about missing an opportunity to do things better, or more effectively, or more efficiently, or something. Clearly people here use github differently from me, and I'd appreciate the opportunity to learn.

Presumably, interacting with Github's hosted issue tracking, editing your project's documentation on the wiki, submitting pull requests, doing a code-review of someone else's pull request before accepting it--any "clerical" project task other than writing and committing code, really.

I was speaking more generally than just Github's case with my original comment, though; for example, it's really obvious that people talk about Reddit being down on HN because when Reddit is down, they're A. bored, and B. want to talk about Reddit being down. They'd do that on Reddit if they could ...but it's down.

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