Honestly I kind of feel for them - their traffic must be spiking like no tomorrow. Though still annoying when the team takes down time because GitHub is down...has anyone transitioned to something else successfully?
Incident with Actions – Resolved
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Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#12I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
My theory is that vibecoded replacements haven't succeeded for the same reason why GitHub's quality has declined: because vibecoding/AI software development isn't as efficient as believed when measuring real-world outcomes.
Yes, yes, yes. I think this is perfect natural experiment to see if saas moats really have gotten smaller...or if that was just an AI mirage.
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#13Honestly I kind of feel for them - their traffic must be spiking like no tomorrow. Though still annoying when the team takes down time because GitHub is down...has anyone transitioned to something else successfully?
This makes me nostalgic for platforms like https://unfuddle.com. That was the old days of other providers with subversion and git.
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#14I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
Locally, I'm using gitolite+cgit. I was previously using Gitea, but that didn't suit my requirements.
I'm using GitHub for my open source projects as:
1. While GitHub Actions has its issues and doesn't work for everyone, I've found it easy to build and test an IntelliJ plugin against multiple IntelliJ versions.
2. I don't have to pay for and manage the hosting of the git repository.
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#15I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
Claude Code web won't let me use my gitea instance.
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#16Down to 84.88% uptime: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ Can't even do three 8s properly.
How reliable is this uptime? and why it's sooo different from gh's official status numbers?
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#17I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
This video suggests OpenAI is actively developing an alternative to GitHub
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#18I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
Inertia, because 'every one uses it', network effects, integrations
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#19I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
One (small, stupid) reason for me is claude code works really well the gh cli.
Another reason is Github Actions. For all of it's problems ( supply chain, reliability issues...to name a few ), it's tight integration with Github (not git) events is pretty great (when it works).
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#20I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
Because my corporate overlord does