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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by axod »

IshKebab wrote: post #151
askonomm wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me this correlates more to them being bought by Microsoft, a company known for being seemingly incapable of creating quality software to the point that it's not even funny anymore, and also known for sloppifying all the products they touch.

I don't think so. GitHub was bought by Microsoft 8 years ago and people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so - exactly correlating with the surge in LLM use.

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

Seems pretty conclusive. Very similar story when they bought skype.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by denysvitali »

zehaeva wrote: post #141

I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in the last year. I'm sure there's other things happening in the…

Microsoft acquisition which forced to migrate all to Azure.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by BlackRabbit1 »

wilburx3 wrote: post #170
opiniateddev wrote: post #85

Given the recent history of outages, I wonder how many are seriously considering moving off GitHub for anything other than code hosting. I mean actions / workflows.

Forgejo selfhosted for a few months now. Its all good and cost nothing.

Codeberg ironed out a lot of issues in Forgejo

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by shevy-java »

Ever since Microsoft took over, and then when AI Skynet took control, things started to decay. AI companies owe all of use a lot of money. By the way, why do I have to pay for increasing RAM prices here? Why are we so dependent on a few greedy corporations, anyway?

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by alamsterdam »

peterldowns wrote: post #14

Can't wait for the Graphite/Cursor alternative (Origin) to become available. Actions being down for an hour in the middle of the US East workday is crazy. It's super frustrating to be an enterprise customer of Github, seems like we don't get any dedicated resources or additional stability. At this point our only option is self-host github enterprise or move away.

jenkins running on an old Dell under a desk from someone who left the company 18 months ago looks more reliable these days haha

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by shevy-java »

askonomm wrote: post #146
zehaeva wrote: post #141

I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in the last year. I'm sure there's other things happening in the…

To me this correlates more to them being bought by Microsoft, a company known for being seemingly incapable of creating quality software to the point that it's not even funny anymore, and also known for sloppifying all the products they touch.

It's true, Microsoft made github worse, but the more recent issues seem to have to do a lot more with Microsoft selling its soul to AI. Microsoft really appears to have gotten dumber as they became dependent on AI. Most recent example: they used to promote Win11 and 32GB RAM. Now they are down to 8GB silently ... this is quite hilarious. There are now so many side effects that you see degradation in so many other areas. Or the gaming industry: it is not quite dying but it is taking a huge hit with skyrocketing RAM prices. Consoles selling less is an example here. It's quite fascinating how deadly disruptive AI is now.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by rankam »

alamsterdam wrote: post #173
rankam wrote: post #164

Is anyone seeing improvement - their last message implying a capacity problem would suggest some are actions are running?

nope, 6 hours, nothing. I guess they are also load shedding

Same - their status page doesn't give me hope that this will be resolved any time soon.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by miyoji »

IshKebab wrote: post #151
askonomm wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me this correlates more to them being bought by Microsoft, a company known for being seemingly incapable of creating quality software to the point that it's not even funny anymore, and also known for sloppifying all the products they touch.

I don't think so. GitHub was bought by Microsoft 8 years ago and people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so - exactly correlating with the surge in LLM use.

> people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so

I'm sorry but this made me laugh out loud. That isn't true at all, this has been going on for years. This conversation[0] from six years ago has discussion about the outages starting to become much more frequent in December 2019. It has never gotten better in that time, it's just continually degraded.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935941

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by tylerdavis »

zehaeva wrote: post #141

I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in the last year. I'm sure there's other things happening in the…

They mentioned earlier this year that they were beginning the migration to Azure and that it would take a couple years. I would assume it has more to do with that migration then anything else.
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