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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#262I 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…
For the longest time, I didn't appreciate the "AI-induced traffic" excuse. But seriously, I checked the rough github egress for our lab versus an old log from 2024, and there's an order of magnitude or two difference. From asking around, it seems people all have the gh cli tool and let it loose with parallel tool calls and e.g LLM's polling Actions in a background bash while loop with sleep $TOO_FEW_SECONDS. Some peo…
Ya they're getting boned
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they can't implement something as simple as "decode upstream headers and determine if 429/503" I don't know what to say. Since this has knocked out all customers it indicates they likely don't have anything of this form implemented.
I meant shedding of legitimate base load, not retries. I think we can safely assume they do the latter.
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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#264I 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…
Are these outages caused by introduced bugs, though, or by load issues? As someone who has spent many years working in high load environments, this is not an uncommon pattern. You design a system and it works great. It can handle failures, load spikes, it is horizontally scalable, things are great. You think you figured it out. And then load keeps increasing and you suddenly hit a tipping point where everything keeps…
> Are these outages caused by introduced bugs, though, or by load issues?
Probably both. But it still throws a thorn into the theory that LLMs are about to replace software engineers any day now.
You'd think they could LLM-code their way out of this situation easily if LLMs were the software engineer replacement they are being marketed as.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#265I stopped using github for anything but git backups
latest server i set up is simply a bare repo + hooks to make a local deploy after running tests and shit
super easy to set up having ai do it, zero dependencies, deploy is still 'push it to the main'
i have several remotes for backups and stuff
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#266All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing
> Yup, 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 GitHub’s core features. And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that.
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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#267Claude is about to migrate me to Gitlab in about 5m
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#268I moved to a self-hosted Forgejo, with a self-hosted runner on another cheap Hetzner server. It's amazing how clean, snappy, and reliable it is.
Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until someone makes a better PR experience you guys are stuck with GitHub. Nobody cares about ATProto or whether your commits are a damn NFT or some bs just literally improve upon the experience. That’s it. It’s as if no company is focusing on the product experience or anybody’s experience anymore. It’s all ooo look what I got I got this I can do that too me me me but nobody will ever buy that. Say what you want abou…
Forgejo has a better PR UI. Github has degraded so much that its UI can't even _show_ _the_ _fucking_ _diffs_ without clicking on "Load Diffs". Github is just the laziest default. It's not _terrible_, but it's also not great.
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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
#270This is going to sound crazy, but I kind of wish they went back to paid accounts. This would stop a lot of this.