RGrgrove·Oct 12, 2018
RawGit has been open source from day one: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit
In RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut downrgrove
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rawgit
Served files from raw.githubusercontent.com, but with the correct content types. No longer actively developed.
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Served files from raw.githubusercontent.com, but with the correct content types. No longer actively developed.
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Observed mentions: 2013-06-04 11:58:30 UTC to 2018-10-12 19:12:57 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesI did consider this, and several people have offered to take over, but ultimately I feel that the thing that was most useful about RawGit — it made serving HTML at scale dead simple for anyone with a GitHub repo — is also the thing that made it most prone to abuse.
It came down to a simple equation: fighting abuse on RawGit will _always_ take more time and effort than spreading abuse via RawGit. One persistent jerk working a few hours a day could do so much damage so quickly that mitigating it would require multiple people working full time.
There's just no good way to scale that and retain the functionality that actually made RawGit useful.
I talked about this a little more here: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit/pull/191#issuecomment-42831...
In RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut downIt looks like he didn't, for the most part: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit/blob/master/FAQ.md#can-i-do...
"It's super nice of you to offer, but I don't need any donations at this time. RawGit's server costs are minimal, and the lovely people at StackPath provide RawGit's CDN service free of charge. Thank you though!"
In RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut downI figured this day was coming. Excellent writeup. Sorry to see it go. Thanks for all the raw fish.
Sounds like the cost of hosting this were not insignificant. Curious how was this financed.
EDIT:
To answer my own question, I found the FAQ page, which is also great:
https://github.com/rgrove/rawgit/blob/master/FAQ.md
Sounds like donations helped (maybe). Oh and Stackpath. Kudos to them, too.
In RawGit is now in a sunset phase and will soon shut downHere's source of evil.js that will be served if you are going to abuse rawgit.com and use it on production.
https://github.com/rgrove/rawgithub/blob/master/public/js/ev...
In RawGit – GitHub CDN systemRead the FAQ, rawgithub's source is here: https://github.com/rgrove/rawgithub
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