Incident with Github.com [resolved]

Post by rafram » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

twistedpair wrote: post #259

jjice wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code I sympathized with them when they said this a handful of months ago, but then I saw this [0] page that shows how it's been shot for years prior (which tracks with my memory). I feel for the GH engineers that have to deal with this, especially the SREs. I also don't hate the dow…

They _are_ the LLM coding agent vendor, and are _owned_ by MS, the ~majority~ biggest shareholder of OpenAI. How can you NOT consider that 20x+ scaling in your capacity roadmap projections, where you are trying to get everyone to use these agents as part of your core OKRs? Or, maybe your #1 IT priority was moving everything to Azure instead ;)

Post by zeroq » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

macNchz wrote: post #339

zeroq wrote: post #110

It's been a downward spiral since covid. Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since.

I don't have data for it, but I have been a Github user since 2012 and have found it to be down often for pretty much that entire time. I always figured it's cultural to a degree–new features always seem pretty buggy/underbaked, and often continue to long term but remain unloved and incomplete.

Post by jaen » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

sp4ke wrote: post #361

Arubis wrote: post #99

This is starting to feel like Twitter. For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outsize benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and stability, the community’s started to dissipate. But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself sp…

At least this will wake up more people to the existing alternative efforts such as Forgejo and its progress with federation protocol. https://forgejo.org/2023-01-10-answering-forgejo-federation-...

Post by dkdbejwi383 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

IncandescentGas wrote: post #343

Arubis wrote: post #99

This is starting to feel like Twitter. For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of persuasions could connect, and this had outsize benefits for the community as a whole. That place is becoming untenable, and with the loss of goodwill and stability, the community’s started to dissipate. But there isn’t one obvious transition candidate, so the diaspora is finding itself sp…

Good. That's a gain, not a loss. We're better off without social media psyop manipulations and subscription services bolted onto our code repositories. We're better off without a giant evilcorp getting wholesale access to a large majority of the world's source code.

Post by dcan » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

beardedetim wrote: post #15

We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" No idea if/when we decide to pull that bandaid but I think once we can't merge a hot fix into main because of GH being down, it'll be a big org push to replace it. What's everyone else using? Self hosted Gitlab? Gitea?