Never underestimate the number of users of the ' Spring Festival ' product

Abstract: Strongly protested against the blockade of GitHub. Last night, Kai-Fu Lee (micro-Bo) a protest of well-known technology website GitHub was closed Weibo caused netizens attention, within three hours is forwarded 32,000 times. Lee said GitHub is the world's largest social programming and code hosting site, near

"A strong protest against the blockade of GitHub." Last night, Kai-Fu Lee (micro-Bo) a protest of well-known technology website GitHub was closed Weibo caused netizens attention, within three hours is forwarded 32,000 times. Lee said, "GitHub is the world's largest social programming and code hosting site, recently in the country has been completely blocked." Of the 3 million members of GitHub, China is the fourth largest country. GitHub is the preferred tool for programmers to learn and connect with the world ... The blockade GitHub unreasonable, will only lead to domestic programmers and international derailment, loss of competitiveness and forward-looking. ”

It is understood that GitHub started running in February 2008, which allows developers to share code and store project plans and provide free accounts for open source programs. Some media say GitHub is "a Programmer's Paradise". In fact, GitHub is becoming known in China recently, more because its servers were dragged down by the 12306 booking assistants. January 15 Night, github access to slow, suspected DDoS attack, the last administrator found that the source was a "12306 booking assistant" train ticket booking plug-in.

The author of the plug-in explains that he cites code hosted on the GitHub, causing a large number of users to request a rush to G ithub, eventually slowing down the server. Netizens ridicule, "never underestimate the number of users of this product, in addition to domestic miracle 12306, the overseas great God GitHub can also be worn down." This is just a stress test made by Chinese netizens to help GitHub. ”

Programmer Shong GitHub was Feng Yi things very distressed, he said on the Ministry of the Web site, "GitHub is a programmer community, not today, please help solve." Shong reporters said that their spare time for small projects in the G Ithub, but also in the above with foreign programmers technical exchange, a few days ago just some personal domain name can not be accessed, the core function is still available, but in the afternoon of 21st, the entire site is not on. He speculated that the huge amount of traffic that might have been triggered by the booking assistants of the previous few days had led GFW to notice the site, and was then artificially blocked. As for the message he filled out on the ministry's website, he said it was just a moment of excitement, "no hope at all." ”

"12306 Booking Assistant" author "Iccfish" told the South are reporters, booking assistant since January 16 has been completely removed from the GitHub, was blocked off with his plug-ins, but because githubpages, someone on the top of the blog with sensitive words. He regrets that most of the world's most well-known open source communities have been blocked or are being blocked, "a great deal of trouble with the communication between developers."