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Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by embedding-shape »

darkamaul wrote: post #39
pluc wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Name one thing Microsoft didn't run into the ground post-acquisition

I think Minecraft is still in good shape

I wouldn't know, somehow this game I bought maybe 15 years ago is no longer playable for me, my account was supposed to be migrated from Mojang to Microsoft or similar, but then that never happened or something, and trying to login now asks me to contact Microsoft support, which I've tried 3-4 times, never had anyone respond to me so who knows how the game is today? I stopped trying at this point...

Personally, once a game I own is janked from my hands because of organizational decisions, that's the time I'll stop consider the game "in good shape", but I'm sure the people who had to buy the same game a second time still enjoy it.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by rvz »

rob wrote: post #23
rvz wrote: post #10

Again? It was just yesterday [0] that GA was down and another incident today? I am convinced that Copilot and Tay.ai are destroying GitHub and there is no CEO of GitHub to contact. Now will you please self-host as I said 6 years ago? [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278635 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

You think a Microsoft chatbot from 2016 is destroying GitHub?

At this point, you might as well say that is what's happening at GitHub with the help of GitHub Copilot since nothing has changed and has only gotten worse over time.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by embedding-shape »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #42

Maybe GitHub needs to freeze free repository creation until they get this under control because this is ridiculous.

I mean, if we're talking about "fixing" the symptoms of the downtimes rather than the sources and causes, I guess they could just null route github.com until they have things under control?

Personally, I think they'd have more luck actually attacking the source, what that might be. Somehow I think Microsoft's push for "Every developer only use AI for development, no manual thinking/coding from now on" is the detrimental step, seemingly many companies are still discovering the right approach. Put a freeze to that, and I'm fairly sure you'd see less downtime pretty much immediately, unless all real engineers already left the company, I'm sure I would have at this point.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by swiftcoder »

dist-epoch wrote: post #30

GitHub is not agent scale. Multiple companies are trying to create new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo. It's like switching from horse buggies to automobiles, the whole worlds needs re-architecturing to handle the new load. The age of boutique hand-coding is being replaced by the age of industrial software factories.

> new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo.

This is not a particularly novel level of scale. Facebook's mercurial backend had to handle >5,000 developers committing to the singular monorepo long before LLMs were a thing

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by embedding-shape »

angrydev wrote: post #48
embedding-shape wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The UI of that page is so nice Is it? Seems a text description of "Make a website outlining 'How cooked GitHub' is with a modern style" to basically any LLM would produce exactly that UI and design, literally nothing of that design a human had any influence on, besides the ones selecting what training data the used LLMs was trained with. I think most of us who've tried using LLMs for web-design can recognize that s…

Compared to near unusable pages that large organizations produce, yes this page is highly effective at conveying information. Who cares how it was produced?

> Who cares how it was produced?

Well, we're at least two people who care, since we were conversing about how good/bad the webdesign is, then you jumped in here :) If you don't care, why bother to reply to people who seemingly do care? What kind of conversation are you expecting here, "Yeah, do tooo"? :|

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by beart »

embedding-shape wrote: post #51
darkamaul wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Minecraft is still in good shape

I wouldn't know, somehow this game I bought maybe 15 years ago is no longer playable for me, my account was supposed to be migrated from Mojang to Microsoft or similar, but then that never happened or something, and trying to login now asks me to contact Microsoft support, which I've tried 3-4 times, never had anyone respond to me so who knows how the game is today? I stopped trying at this point... Personally, once…

Yes, the account migration was a mess. Support response times were at least 30 days, if you ever actually received a response at all (I never did). I did buy the game a second time in order to play with my kids.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by chris_money202 »

elzbardico wrote: post #16
pluc wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Name one thing Microsoft didn't run into the ground post-acquisition

GH was acquired by microsoft some eight years ago. It has been working quite well until recently. People may have had complaints about functionality, features, commercial issues, but the thing used to at least have a decent uptime until recently.

Has nothing to do with Microsoft acquisition... AI usage has increased demand and load. More PRs, more Action runners, more of everything firing. GitHub just wasn't ready for the scale and are now having issues catching up with it as it continues to increase exponentially.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by Hamuko »

embedding-shape wrote: post #38
taintlord223 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UI of that page is so nice, should build a github competitor. The user profile / contributions and PR UX is pretty much the entire "hub" product since git is a fully separate offline app.

> The UI of that page is so nice Is it? Seems a text description of "Make a website outlining 'How cooked GitHub' is with a modern style" to basically any LLM would produce exactly that UI and design, literally nothing of that design a human had any influence on, besides the ones selecting what training data the used LLMs was trained with. I think most of us who've tried using LLMs for web-design can recognize that s…

The Bootstrap of 2020s.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by varun_ch »

ramon156 wrote: post #29
sibidharan wrote: post #4

Are they running paid marketing campaigns for Gitlab ?

Self-hosting forgejo under tailscale + mirroring public repos through GitHub Has worked wonders for me :)

Forgejo is fantastic. I do think it could use a fresh coat of paint from a designer but it’s otherwise really good.

Gitea (what Forgejo forked from) recently stole the sidebar on repos from GitHub and I think that would be great for Forgejo to steal too…

Forgejo themed by Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo (the codeberg theme is extremely low contrast)

Forgejo default: https://v15.next.forgejo.org/pparaxan/quark

Forgejo themed by Lix: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix

Gitea: https://gitea.com/gitea/awesome-gitea

Gitea themed by Blender: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender

I personally like Blender’s Gitea theme better than the rest but I guess that’s subjective. In dark mode I do not like the low contrast Codeberg theme or the default Forgejo theme, but all of the instances custom themes look great.

As far as Git forges go in general though.. tangled is very pretty https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core I think more power user oriented software should be comfortable with compact interfaces

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