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Perhaps even AIslopalypse.
I've been using "slopocalypse". People already know AI is responsible, but slop existed before — e.g. conventionally generated SEO spam. It's just... so much worse now.
At any rate, it seems like GitHub is back up now, so we'll see how long that lasts.
I'm just going to stand by until Microsoft is back in everyone's good graces again by releasing some oss software that we all swoon over
Fuck sake. Again? Sorry, I realise this comment isn't up to HN's usual standards for thoughtfulness and it is perhaps a bit inflammatory but... look, I'd bet the majority of us on this site rely on GitHub and I can't be the only one becoming incredibly frustrated with its recent unreliability[0]? (And, yes, I did enough basic data analysis to confirm that it IS indeed getting worse versus a year, two years, and three…
> I realise this comment isn't up to HN's usual standards for thoughtfulness > And, yes, I did enough basic data analysis to confirm Perhaps you'd consider showing us that analysis? That sounds like it would make a pretty substantive, thoughtful comment.
The worst part of all this is that GitHub's CTO and VP of Engineering sent out the usual "here's what we'll do to fix things" letter to their larger customers and, without exaggeration, it boiled down to: 1) "Here's a bunch of stuff we already did!" which... clearly isn't working, and 2) "We're continuing our Azure migration." also clearly not working. So needless to say, if you depend on GitHub for critical business…
ooooh, they're migrating to Azure, now everything makes sense.
I wonder if the extended downtime is just due to the on-call engineers waiting for their azure auth tokens to refresh within azure's own damn network.
I'm just going to stand by until Microsoft is back in everyone's good graces again by releasing some oss software that we all swoon over
Is that a cyclical thing? I went through the VS code+typescript good graces era but I didn't know there were previous cycles.
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GitHub has always been incredibly outage riddled no? This is not a MSFT thing
I don't remember that happening so much (if ever) in, say, 2016. But the frequency of noticeable incidents seemingly has been rising steadily since around 2023. The Azure migration apparently only exacerbated it.
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I’m still baffled that Minecraft is doing so well, despite the whole Bedrock thing. At this point I think Microsoft just forgot that they bought Mojang.
Minecraft is a trick up their sleeve yet to be used. Manipulate and indoctrinate the youth.
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Here are some relevant excerpts from an October 2025 article[1]: > In a message to GitHub’s staff, CTO Vladimir Fedorov notes that GitHub is constrained on capacity in its Virginia data center. “It’s existential for us to keep up with the demands of AI and Copilot, which are changing how people use GitHub,” he writes. > The plan, he writes, is for GitHub to completely move out of its own data centers in 24 months. “T…
>It’s existential for us to keep up with the demands of AI and Copilot if by chance the CTO reads this, as a user of GitHub I would find it really existential if GitHub continues functioning as a reliable hub for git workflows (hence the name), and I have the strong suspicion nobody except for the shareholders gives a lick about copilot or 'AI' if it makes the core service the site was designed for unusable
Took a full 8 years for a Microsoft acquisition to go to shit, which is probably a record. Kudos to the Github team for holding out this long.
I’m still baffled that Minecraft is doing so well, despite the whole Bedrock thing. At this point I think Microsoft just forgot that they bought Mojang.