GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

Post by rand846633 » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 11:05 PM UTC

sandeepkd wrote: post #72

tyre wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that they should reserve capacity for enterprises and paying users. But I think they’re in a tough spot. GitHub has historically been a huge supporter, proponent, and provider for open source projects. Engineers are difficult customers, to say the least, and the community would likely freak tf out of the segmented traffic. The logical, pragmatic, and justifiable answer doesn’t always align with your market.

Not sure if I would agree to that completely. Free tier is always ripe for abuse so in the beginning for a long time, Github has this requirement that you can only have a public repository if you are a non-paying user. Somewhere down the road when machine learning picked up (everyone was on the band wagon of hoarding the data, datalakes, hadoop, flink were at the top) they relaxed that condition allowing one to have…

Post by stephenway » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 11:28 PM UTC

kigiri wrote: post #180

Fuzzwah wrote: post #52

Near the end of the 8.5 years that I worked at GitHub as an enterprise support engineer, I asked in an all hands if a "GitHub Classic" product had been considered. Much like World of Warcraft Classic, I imagined it would be a rewrite focused on matching the simpler feature set of the past. I was basically given the same response that blizzard gave that question; "you think you want that but you don't".

Fun idea, I mean, I use old.reddit.com, would probably use classic.github.com too... Imagine YouTube Classic...

Post by Khaine » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC

Post by angry_octet » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 2:58 AM UTC

majormajor wrote: post #81

joshuahedlund wrote: post #57

Given that the outages are caused by record traffic, so far they are only cooked in the Yogi Berra sense of “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded”

Random AI slop code pushers don't pay the bills. Traffic isn't revenue. I've started suggesting to my CTO that we move to something else because we do pay the Github bills and yet we are also affected by other people's activity . Avoiding that is not a hard engineering problem for an alternative. A world where a record amount of code is pushed to GH but a large amount of paying customers leave would be "cooked"

Post by luisfmh » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 3:08 AM UTC

kigiri wrote: post #180

Fuzzwah wrote: post #52

Near the end of the 8.5 years that I worked at GitHub as an enterprise support engineer, I asked in an all hands if a "GitHub Classic" product had been considered. Much like World of Warcraft Classic, I imagined it would be a rewrite focused on matching the simpler feature set of the past. I was basically given the same response that blizzard gave that question; "you think you want that but you don't".

Fun idea, I mean, I use old.reddit.com, would probably use classic.github.com too... Imagine YouTube Classic...