synunlimited
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
Just curious if this workload also saw some of the same improvements (on a quick read it seems like you could have been hitting the routing problem CF mentions)
Personally, I'm glad I haven't built something on PS Hobby that I have to migrate but I do think its fair to charge for your product.
[0] https://twitter.com/PlanetScale/status/1765438197981708684
The judges are all volunteers that may or may not have a background in the actual event they are there to grade. So you get someone that just shows up, reads the rules for the event and then judges accordingly to those exact rules. Which in this case since the website is hosted by Github it automatically gets disqualified for not meeting the rules of the event. This is a pretty easy thing to fix which is either A) Just have a custom domain that hides the github hostname B) host it somewhere else. The students here seem to have taken the B approach and have it up on netlify now.
I certainly empathize with the students here putting hard work into a project only to get disqualified on a technicality, it is a hard lesson to learn and one around maximizing your results within the rules as long as you follow all the rules. Hopefully they will be successful in getting the rules updated moving forward to be more clear about the default github page templates vs just raw HTML hosting.
That said it doesn't surprise me that certain servers have continued to grow and thrive over the years.
And since as you mentioned from the post its a popular complaint so I figured others might be interested in this change as well.
Would be nice to put something like this up behind our own VPN auth etc
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