Scott mocks the backlash to GitHub's tongue-in-cheek CD-ROM promotion (riffing on PlayStation going discless), arguing critics wrongly blame a small marketing team for the company's infrastructure and uptime issues. ✦ AI generated
Scott Tolinski · Syntax · 2026-07-06 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 23:09
Why don't you fix your infrastructure? as if the marketing team at GitHub, who's probably just a couple of people putting this promotion on, are the ones going to be single-handedly fixing your infrastructure, like, oh, let's let's redivert that energy and money.
verbatim transcript · starts at 23:09
23:09"We heard you and we agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can obtain your public repo on a CDROM. And they even had a little link here where you can go ahead and get one. And the the internet had a very normal response to this where everyone just started complaining about it. What in the world? Why would we ever want that?
23:35What? Why don't you fix your infrastructure? as if the marketing team at GitHub, who's probably just a couple of people putting this promotion on, are the ones going to be single-handedly fixing your infrastructure, like, oh, let's let's redivert that energy and money. Like, this is costing any kind of money that would then uh cause GitHub to somehow not be able to fix their infrastructure. It is crazy. And I had people arguing
24:03with me left and right about this thing. I said, "This is just a fun promotion." and they're like, "You got to think of the optics." It's like, "Brother, like people are just in such a dang grumpy complaint about anything that like I I I cannot comprehend being mad at this." They're like, "You got to think of the timing and the optics." I I the those two takes like fine I can
24:30understand the optics of it that get hasn't had the best uptime lately but the people who are saying like it's diverting funds from infrastructure or this is why GitHub is down all the time like you people are so out to lunch uh and and and I don't know I got somebody grumpy at me I'm gonna I'm put them on blast actually let me even let me let me
24:52do that uh let me go through my >> Oh my gosh Um uh yeah, let's find this. Let's find this cuz this makes for good content. Uh yes, this guy here. You YouTubers are so out of this world that you can't understand the importance or ways to deliver a better product by all means. You got numb to people's real problems. The performative marketing is the only thing you see and appreciate. Theater