Looks like they need some high level analysis on why these outages happen so often.
At this point it feels like it’s no longer a series of accidents and that they should improve something.
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#12again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.
Out of curiosity, what could have Microsoft done to cause this? I'm not aware of the acquisition details. But did they make GitHub switch to Azure or make significant changes to infrastructure? I've seen several people blaming Microsoft for GitHub outages and am trying to understand why this is a common thing.
I'm not privy to their management decisions, but I have used windows and azure, and I use office 365 every day, and this seems about right for Microsoft Quality.
Re: GitHub was down
#1314 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it's happening again. Twice in less than a month.
Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1]
Re: GitHub was down
#14Second time in what, a week? What is going on at Microsoft?
What is going on that people expect something better from Microsoft? Really this is quite on par with the quality they deliver. The only surprising thing is that people are surprised by this.
Their subpar uptime dates way back before Microsoft acquired them. Nothing to do with Microsoft. To be fair, I am sure they have unique scaling and infrastructure problems.
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#15Seems like things started to go down the drain somewhere around February 2020.
https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/kr09ddfgbfsf?page=2
Wonder what was the trigger for the reliability hit - actions went GA on nov 2019, so it's something else (or possibly a combination of things)
Re: GitHub was down
#16again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.
I prefer gitlab too but github is where most projects are, and that plays a overwhelming huge role on deciding where devs (and so other projects too) will be.. :/ It could change, but would require a pretty huge fuck-up or a lot of time and many not-so-smal mistakes from github.
"small" fuckups like this one have outsized impacts due to the amount of projects that use github. And the amount of people who just refuse to even consider gitlab is staggering.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what could have Microsoft done to cause this? I'm not aware of the acquisition details. But did they make GitHub switch to Azure or make significant changes to infrastructure? I've seen several people blaming Microsoft for GitHub outages and am trying to understand why this is a common thing.
I'm not privy to their management decisions, but I have used windows and azure, and I use office 365 every day, and this seems about right for Microsoft Quality.
Yeah you’re bang on there, office365 has to be easily the most unreliable SaaS product I’ve ever used.
Re: GitHub was down
#18I received a 500 error when I went to GitHub, and the first thought on my mind was to check Hacker News.
I wasn't disappointed.
In all fairness, I GitHub has more or less been fairly reliable, minus whatever has been going on over the last week.
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#19again ... well done microsoft. well done. I really don't get why people keep using it, gitlab seems objectively better to me.
But, UI of Gitlab is very bloated. I feel that UI of Github is less bloater than Gitlab. Gitea is OK,but there is no one big instance(yes,I know about codeberg) . Sourcehut is made by one-man in his one-man shop,and it lacks many features that one needs.Also,it is Alpha software.
> But, UI of Gitlab is very bloated. I feel that UI of Github is less bloater than Gitlab.
Bloated how? There is a lot of functionality in gitlab, and maybe there is a fair argument that the product itself is bloated, but the UI seems pretty appropriate for the functionality. Maybe I'm just used to it though.
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#2014 Days ago, they went down [0]. And today it's happening again. Twice in less than a month. Another reminder to self host via solutions like GitLab or Gitea. [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675864 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676072
self-hosting requires quite a bit of scale to be more reliable, otherwise you'll most likely still have possibly longer outages, just at different times.