Freezing / unmaintaining ghuser.io

[lourot]

It has been a great experience to play with ghuser, and even if I still want to have my profile online and fresh, I have less and less energy, time and money to put into this project.

I won't switch it off immediately but I'll probably start doing these kind of things:

• stop on-boarding of new users,
• refresh profiles less often (e.g. weekly instead of daily),
• delete empty profiles.

Many thanks to all the contributors, especially @brillout and @wowawiwa. I'm still reachable/responsive and I'll be happy to help if I can quickly unblock anyone who still wants to contribute.

[brillout]

Thanks for the heads up. Feel free to shut down my profile if it helps you.

[nealmcb]

Wow - thanks for all your work on this, and sorry to hear that.
Is there a way to download or preserve all the data that has been gathered? I know it will go stale, but if someone else wants to revive the project, invest in server capacity, analyze the data etc. that seems important.

[lourot]

Thanks @nealmcb ! Yes, the entire database is dumped every day. Here is the latest one: https://s3.amazonaws.com/ghuser/backups/2019-07-10.tar.gz

See here for more details.

[nealmcb]

Very cool. For reference, that DB download is this size compressed

Length: 188578663 (180M) [application/x-tar]

with about 473875 files in it:

   3995 users
   3875 contribs
 224605 repos
      1 nonOrgs.json
      1 meta.json
 224605 repoCommits
  16792 orgs

[jonathancross]

Thanks for this great project!
Have you thought about asking for a small payment to add a profile?
Bitcoin would be perfect for this :-)