Is it really that much better than alternatives to justify these constant outages?
No, but it has momentum left over from when it was much better. The Microsoft downslide will continue untill there's no one left
GitHub is down again
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#102Re: GitHub is down again
#103The saddest part to me is that their status update page and twitter are both out of date. I get a full 500 on github.com and yet all I see on their status page is an "incident with pull requests" and "copilot policy propagation delays."
Re: GitHub is down again
#104Looks like AI replacement of engineering force in action.
Github is moving to Microsoft Azure which is causing all of this downtime AFAIK
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#105I get the feeling that most of these GitHub downtimes are during US working hours, since I don't remember being impacted them during work. Only noticed it now as I was looking up a repo on my free time.
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#106If you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no. If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an all-time own goal in our industry.
I viscerally dislike github so much at this point. I don't know how how they come back from this. Major opportunity for competitor here to come around and with ai native features like context versioning
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#107You can literally watch GitHub explode bit by bit. Take a look at the GitHub Status History; it's hilarious: https://www.githubstatus.com/history .
You know what I think would reverse the trend? More vibe coding!
No, the reason it's happening is because they must be vibe coding! :P
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#108pretty clear that companies like microsoft are actually terrible at engineering, their core products were built 30 years ago. any changes now are generally extremely incremental and quickly rolled back with issue. trying to innovate at github shows just how bad they are.
It's a general curse of anything that becomes successful at a BigCorp.
The engineers who build the early versions were folks at the top of their field, and compensated accordingly. Those folks have long since moved on, and the whole thing is maintained by a mix of newcomers and whichever old hands didn't manage to promote out, while the PMs shuffle the UX to justify everyones salary...
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#109So, what're people's alt stack for replacing GitHub?
We're mirroring to Gitea + Jenkins.
It's definitely some extra devops time, but claude code makes it easy to get over the config hurdles.
Re: GitHub is down again
#110GitHub has a long history of being extremely unstable. They were down all the time, much like recently, several years ago. They seemed to stabilize quite a bit around the MS acquisition era, and now seem to be returning to their old instability patterns.