Ask HN: Why Is GitHub Pages Not Supporting IPv6?

2 points by thewavelength 6 years ago | 1 comment

Why is GitHub Pages not supporting IPv6?

This is a serious question, no ranting please. I never worked with such a big tech stack nor in such a big company.

Why doesn't a tech company where one could argue it being in a role-model position in the industry put a priority on this? I do understand companies put their priorities where the money is. Given that GH Pages is also a feature for paid customers (for private repos for example), one could argue this is the case here.

Probably one of the reasons is the involved complexity of a CDN. But I'm interested in the detailed reason(s).

detaro 6 years ago |

Guessing:

It's very much a "nice to have" feature with low priority, on a product that itself is likely low priority (Pages).

Even if an IPv4-only site is slower for some subset of users (that have IPv6-native internet connections and gateways to access IPv4), that's not something GitHub is likely to care about, especially not with Pages. Pages being a tiny bit faster doesn't make them money and few people ever notice. E.g. HTTPS support for custom domains was a lot more important.