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Roses are red, violets are blue, everyone is using IPv6, why aren't you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by carrylex@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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People have been asking for IPv6 Support on GitHub since years (probably a decade by now)

... and someone even got so annoyed that they decided to setup a dedicated website for checking this: https://isgithubipv6.live/

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[–] NakedGardenGnome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago

Their ranges are running dry. Nearly all address spaces are taken, so we will need to migrate eventually. However, since almost everyone still supports both, and ipv4 is much easier to read and maintain, adoption of IPv6 has been slow.