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Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by kleene_op » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 9:45 PM UTC

sysworld wrote: post #79

guywithabike wrote: post #49

The worst part of all this is that GitHub's CTO and VP of Engineering sent out the usual "here's what we'll do to fix things" letter to their larger customers and, without exaggeration, it boiled down to: 1) "Here's a bunch of stuff we already did!" which... clearly isn't working, and 2) "We're continuing our Azure migration." also clearly not working. So needless to say, if you depend on GitHub for critical business…

ooooh, they're migrating to Azure, now everything makes sense.

Azure, the color of BSOD

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by pm90 » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

sysworld wrote: post #79

guywithabike wrote: post #49

The worst part of all this is that GitHub's CTO and VP of Engineering sent out the usual "here's what we'll do to fix things" letter to their larger customers and, without exaggeration, it boiled down to: 1) "Here's a bunch of stuff we already did!" which... clearly isn't working, and 2) "We're continuing our Azure migration." also clearly not working. So needless to say, if you depend on GitHub for critical business…

ooooh, they're migrating to Azure, now everything makes sense.

i heard that they asked LinkedIn to do this too and they either refused or their systems were too complex so they refused to. Maybe that explains why LI availability seems ok

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by pylua » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

keithnz wrote: post #69

pylua wrote: post #60

Anyone else notice other Microsoft cloud services ( for instance inside azure ) with bad performance also? I can’t be specific but we are constantly complaining.

No? Azures been rock solid for us.

Front door did have a major outage last year.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by spauldo » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 9:49 PM UTC

AndroTux wrote: post #86

paxys wrote: post #42

Took a full 8 years for a Microsoft acquisition to go to shit, which is probably a record. Kudos to the Github team for holding out this long.

I’m still baffled that Minecraft is doing so well, despite the whole Bedrock thing. At this point I think Microsoft just forgot that they bought Mojang.

They'd lose a whole lot of users if they killed Java edition, since the modded community is so large. They'd quickly find one of the Minecraft clones reaching feature parity. And there's no good reason for it - it's not like Java is a threat anymore.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by TimReynolds » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 9:50 PM UTC

Would be easier for them to just tell us when it’s up these days

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by torben-friis » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

stevepotter wrote: post #73

I'm just going to stand by until Microsoft is back in everyone's good graces again by releasing some oss software that we all swoon over

Is that a cyclical thing? I went through the VS code+typescript good graces era but I didn't know there were previous cycles.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by Barrin92 » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

spondyl wrote: post #110

sysworld wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ooooh, they're migrating to Azure, now everything makes sense.

Here are some relevant excerpts from an October 2025 article[1]: > In a message to GitHub’s staff, CTO Vladimir Fedorov notes that GitHub is constrained on capacity in its Virginia data center. “It’s existential for us to keep up with the demands of AI and Copilot, which are changing how people use GitHub,” he writes. > The plan, he writes, is for GitHub to completely move out of its own data centers in 24 months. “T…

>It’s existential for us to keep up with the demands of AI and Copilot

if by chance the CTO reads this, as a user of GitHub I would find it really existential if GitHub continues functioning as a reliable hub for git workflows (hence the name), and I have the strong suspicion nobody except for the shareholders gives a lick about copilot or 'AI' if it makes the core service the site was designed for unusable

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by tholford » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 10:01 PM UTC

Setting up a Gitea instance is approachable, especially with agent assistance.

https://about.gitea.com/

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by carlosft » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

htrp wrote: post #68

paxys wrote: post #42

Took a full 8 years for a Microsoft acquisition to go to shit, which is probably a record. Kudos to the Github team for holding out this long.

To be fair a bunch of this is because the CEO after Nat Friedman (Thomas Dohmke) was pushed out in August 25.

And a ton of the top end ruby staff have left. Many of them ended up at shopify. There is a growing about of non ruby/rails code at github, but most of the system that people think of when they think github are ruby/rails.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by AndroTux » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

spauldo wrote: post #124

AndroTux wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m still baffled that Minecraft is doing so well, despite the whole Bedrock thing. At this point I think Microsoft just forgot that they bought Mojang.

They'd lose a whole lot of users if they killed Java edition, since the modded community is so large. They'd quickly find one of the Minecraft clones reaching feature parity. And there's no good reason for it - it's not like Java is a threat anymore.

Exactly. So why isn't Microsoft doing just that? Isn't that how Microsoft usually handles things? Just look at Xbox. They essentially screwed up everything they could and then some.