GitHub Down Again? • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#41

Post by rozenmd » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:52 PM UTC

Good to see it's not just me - seems to be flip-flopping: https://github.onlineornot.com/

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#42

Post by tpoacher » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #14

Yes, still having hiccups for me. I started having issues about 24 hours ago. What is the reason for this spate of outages? GitHub is a mature, stable product. What core features could its engineers possibly need to be working on that whatever they did broke core backend functionality so badly?

Probably just Windows Update /s

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#43

Post by rozenmd » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #33

JOnAgain wrote: post #16

What is even the point? https://www.githubstatus.com/ Save money by just not having the page or the people pretending they do something useful by maintaining it.

One of the many status page/"is it down" services could probably get some good PR out of having a GitHub status page that's based upon live results from several geographical locations..

Oh hey, I've got one right here: https://github.onlineornot.com/

Based out of Virginia, USA for the initial check, followed by a random sample of 19 locations around the world to confirm it's actually down.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#44

Post by irajdeep » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

tambourine_man wrote: post #23

Remember when git came out, one of its features was being a decentralized, distributed version control system? Yeah.

This joke is more beaten than Github at this point.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

#45

Post by remram » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 3:29 PM UTC

Actions haven't run for me since two official outages ago. Multiple jobs stuck as "Waiting for a runner to pick up this job" for a day.

Re: GitHub Down Again?

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Post by rvz » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 4:44 PM UTC

Again? Last time this happened was 12 - 13 hours ago [0]

If you are self-hosting like GNOME, wireguard, Redox OS, Wine, etc it seems it is business as usual. But for those who went all in on GitHub, it's pretty much a recurring disaster.

At this point, those who are self-hosting might as well say they have better up-time than GitHub had since they are still unreliable even after two years of warning against the 'centralize everything' [1] nonsense.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32744717

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

Re: GitHub Down Again?

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Post by tambourine_man » Wed, Sep 07, 2022, 6:42 PM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #29

tambourine_man wrote: post #23

Remember when git came out, one of its features was being a decentralized, distributed version control system? Yeah.

Git is decrentralized! You win GitHub down bingo!

I don’t know. If it keeps happening again and again and people keep bringing it up, maybe it’s a remake worth considering.