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Diversion's Blog
Company blog · diversion.dev/blog · on HN as sashamprogramminggames
Diversion's Blog is the company blog at diversion.dev, writing about programming and games. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an Ask HN thread as a GitHub alternative that can sync bi-directionally with GitHub and handles files of any size. The comment promotes the product, not any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Diversion is scalable version control for game development, Unreal Engine, Unity, 3D and AI - a modern alternative to Perforce, Git, and SVN.
What Hacker News says?
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on “Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative”Submitted The Compounding Effect of Version Control Performance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe issues they want to address are already solved in Diversion ( https://diversion.dev ). Granted it's not open source yet, but that isn't usually a priority for game/entertainment studios - having a complete platform is. After tearing it apart for 2 hours - it seems like a solid beginning, but definitely not a fully-functioning product (especially on Mac, I hope it works better on Linux/Windows). Disclaimer - I'm…
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on “Epic Games announces Lore version control system”Submitted Version Control for Game Devs: Survey Results as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm one of the founders of https://diversion.dev . It's a version control used mainly by game developers, but also by some audio and video artists. Its advantages over git for music production - 1) it works with large binary files out of the box, and 2) it's easy to use for non-technical people. This also solves the issue of backing up and sharing the project complete with large media files that the author mentions.
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on “Git for Music – Using Version Control for Music Production (2023)”Submitted Can artists benefit from version control, too? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe're barely starting to see AI's impact on infra - probably <1% of what's coming. Repo hosting as it is today won't scale - it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, starting with basic architecture. And I don't think we should go back to self hosting and sharing patches over email... (FWIW https://diversion.dev is at 100% uptime. Different scale, obviously, but also we're not Microsoft.)
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on “GitHub is having issues now”Give https://diversion.dev/ a try. You can even have bi-directional sync between GitHub and Diversion while you decide. Files of any size, centralized, and easy to use.
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on “Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub”