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Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

tomw1808 wrote: post #36

Things can go wrong, but really, its been a lot and we're normalizing that to an unhealthy degree... I wonder if it was down that much, if users would get credits the way we pay when we use the services - its kind of ridiculous for a critical service to be down that much and all we do is "ah okay, its just github". Like, as if that was normal to be down that much...

I don't think it's been "normalized". Github uptime is literally a joke in the tech community. They have first mover advantage and a behemoth behind them so they're not going away, but everyone knows how shit it's uptime is. It takes time for organizations to move away from services like this but I would bet anything that many are starting to try to move away, as well as new companies knowing they shouldn't use the service.

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by ncr100 »

frenchie4111 wrote: post #11

I noticed earlier this week that my URL bar now pre-fills githubstatus.com instead of github.com when I type "gith"

A browser extension to indicate githubstatus being yellow/red:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/is-github-down/lcfo...

A VSCode extension:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RuslanRy...

Firefox:

https://github.com/matagus/github-status-checker

Caveat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450924

(disclaimer: none of these are recommended by me to use - merely sharing to build on for this discussion)

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by b112 »

vinnymac wrote: post #58
frenchie4111 wrote: post #11

I noticed earlier this week that my URL bar now pre-fills githubstatus.com instead of github.com when I type "gith"

For me this started happening when I type "stat" too. Which surprised me because of the many hundreds of services I rely on regularly that also have status pages.

Good lord, hundreds?!

Uptime reliability is nkt additive, it's multiplicative, sometimes even logarithmic.

Downtime of 99% and 99% is 98.1%. I hope almost all those services are non-prod related.

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by rvz »

Another outage, this time with GitHub Actions. Last time that happened was 5 days ago [0] and another outage happened on the postmortem announcement as well. [1]

While GitHub is imploding itself, maybe you should think about self-hosting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379172

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379225

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by jscott817 »

caust1c wrote: post #69
shepardrtc wrote: post #44

Fun read about Azure and having 173 agents running a node: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize... Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Azure at the end of last year.

Azure's going to suffocate github. I'm curious to see what's next. Will self-hosting the code repository come back in vogue or will another social-coding platform take off?

My small org has definitely had internal discussions around self-hosting gitlab. We'll see what happens.

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by thatwasunusual »

I have been very happy with github for _years_. Lately, not so much. Now I want to try a self-hosting alternative again. I tried gitlab years ago (pre-pandemic, IIRC), and it wasn't for me (they had _serious_ security issues as well, which of course didn't affect my self-hosting thing, but still...).

So - where do we stand in August 2026?

*EDIT:* No, I don't want anything related to Felon Musk.

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by vinnymac »

jscott817 wrote: post #75
caust1c wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Azure's going to suffocate github. I'm curious to see what's next. Will self-hosting the code repository come back in vogue or will another social-coding platform take off?

My small org has definitely had internal discussions around self-hosting gitlab. We'll see what happens.

If you're actively considering self hosting, I recommend giving forgejo a try. The experience is much more similar to what GitHub offers, actions API is nearly identical to name one similarity of which there are many. Moving essentially becomes one prompt and a coffee later for a small team.

Re: Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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Post by brazukadev »

caust1c wrote: post #69
shepardrtc wrote: post #44

Fun read about Azure and having 173 agents running a node: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize... Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Azure at the end of last year.

Azure's going to suffocate github. I'm curious to see what's next. Will self-hosting the code repository come back in vogue or will another social-coding platform take off?

probably not. The people that have done it before or willing to do it now is probably a very % of the commit volume, they leaving wouldn't change much, probably not gonna even move the exponential growth needle.
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