CircleCI seems to not have the same problem: https://status.circleci.com/
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Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the GitHub COO on April 3rd: Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week. So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening G…
This is extremely interesting how fast this happened. Either AI use surged massively in the last quarter, or this is a very sneaky move by Anthropic. Looking at my own stats, I don't think I'm using Claude Code much more than I used to, but my commits have gone way up. I have a feeling they've tuned the models recently to commit more often, which gives the illusion of more work being done.
> Either AI use surged massively in the last quarter
December 2025 is considered by many people to be a major step function in agentic coding (both due to improvements in harnesses and LLMs themselves). I know my coding has forever changed since then.
Before I was basically always hands on the keyboard while working with AI. Now I'm running experiments with multiple agents over the weekend, only periodically checking in if they have any questions or need further instruction.
The last quarter is where I personally first started to see how this was all going to change things (despite having worked on both the research and product side of AI for the last few years).
> I have a feeling they've tuned the models recently to commit more often, which gives the illusion of more work being done.
Agents certainly are committing more often, but I know, at least for these projects, there really is work being done. An example: I had an agent auto-researching a forecast I was working on. This is something I've done manually for over a decade now. The iteration process is tedious and time consuming, and would often take weeks of setting up and ultimately poorly documenting many, many experiments to see what works. Now I can "set it and forget it", and get the same results I would have in hours (with much more surface area covered and much better documentation). Each experiment is a branch (or work-tree) so yes there are a lot of commits happening, but the results are measurably real.
I often think the big divide related to the success with agents is whether or not the quality of ones work can be objectively measured. For those of us doing work that can be measured, the impact of agents is still hard to comprehend.
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#163Reduce the free tier. I’ve made 4000 commits in the last 2.5 months. That’s just to main. And I push up tons of artifacts daily for regression testing. For $0.
Honestly, I hate "free tiers" for SAAS products like this.
For about 5 minutes, Google had a pay-as-you-go service on GCP for git. I used to use that, because I wanted to own my stuff. But (I guess) because everyone used "free" github -- and like a lot of other Google services -- they sunsetted it.
So now I'm using github for free. But would rather pay for my storage an usage with a (big) cloud provider.
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#164Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you need users for? GH is not a social network
I don't know. Everyone seems to be using GitHub only because everyone else is using GitHub. Apparently that's important somehow. Me, I use "git init"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
It's a lot easier to get bug reports and fixes when everyone is on the same auth system.
That's why there is also a call for federated forges
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#166Github has published some incredible usage rate increase numbers, which they ascribe to the rise of agentic coding. At some point, they are going to have to change rate limits, cut free-tier usage, or find some other path to reducing load. It's clear that their infrastructure can't keep up with this significant increase, and it's unlikely that they're going to just absorb the increased costs themselves. Very curious…
From the GitHub COO on April 3rd: Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week. So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening G…
After the Microsoft acquisition GH marketing and pricing put an immense amount of effort[1] into trying to kill secondary platforms that integrated into github and move more corporate accounts fully on-platform. We recently dropped travis for github actions and dropped reviewable for github PRs (which are terrible).
There's a portion of this that is agentic driven and there's a portion of this that's just github making their own bed.
1. Arguably anticompetitive pricing like MSFT is used to doing with the office suite.
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#167Github has 84.92% uptime in the last 90 days according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses I don't know how this is even remotely close to acceptable.
ffs can we stop talking about that number and site already.
It treats any service being down as the entire platform being down which is nonsense.
It's just lying with statistics.
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#168Hilariously, it looks like basically everything except Copilot is degraded. The jokes write themselves sometimes.
Copilot is fully independent of the code forge parts of GitHub, so I would imagine it’s running on completely different infrastructure, without any hard dependencies on the Rails monolith.
Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
The GitHub SREs are working for the Copilot company.
Satya Nadella at the LlamaCon event in April 2025: "I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software." In particular Github, with it's copilot-next initiative, has probably so much AI generated code inside today that fixing all this new performance problems will need lots of human developer brains.
It literally have problems the moment MS bought it, way before AI gold rush.
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#170I'm moving everything to self hosted GitLab CE now. Will just use GitHub as a backup. This is so ridiculous at this point.
GitLab vs Forgejo? Personally run GitLab but looking at moving, due to it's massive size.