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Re: GitHub Is Down

#21

Post by kalleboo » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

Seems like it's back for me (and slow.. and now down again)

Re: GitHub Is Down

#22

Post by japhyr » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:39 PM UTC

There's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation.

GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to. And when I have to for a project, it slows me down noticeably.

I thought I was alone in this, but asking around I found that this is a common frustration among developers I communicate regularly with.

Re: GitHub Is Down

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Post by ferriswil » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:39 PM UTC

Maybe we can spend this downtime researching self-hosting options

Re: GitHub Is Down

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Post by lawrjone » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:40 PM UTC

The industry made a general decision after ZIRP ended to deprioritise availability after years of historic levels of engineering investment.

It's no surprise we're now feeling those effects but damn, GitHub and other services like Slack have been really bad lately.

Re: GitHub Is Down

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Post by zaruvi » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

cropcirclbureau wrote: post #15

bigfatfrock wrote: post #10

Who's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?

Hosting GitLab is not fun but anyways, M$ can still suck it.

Not Onedev or Forgejo, though it could get tricky depending on what features you require.

Re: GitHub Is Down

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Post by reddalo » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

bigfatfrock wrote: post #10

Who's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?

Speaking of self hosting, Codeberg [1] is great. It's open and it looks and behaves pretty much like GitHub (unlike GitLab).

[1] https://codeberg.org/

Re: GitHub Is Down

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Post by rvz » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

This continues to be a regular thing for the past 5 years of outages and I've lost count of the many outages that GitHub continues to have since calling it. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406

Re: GitHub Is Down

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Post by RohMin » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:43 PM UTC

japhyr wrote: post #22

There's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation. GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to.…

That's actually a really interesting way to leverage that feature. Have you found this easier than other services built specifically for this use case?

Re: GitHub Is Down

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Post by rcleveng » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:44 PM UTC

even the main github.com page seems down for me now (also getting the unicorn that others saw on their repo)

Re: GitHub Is Down

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Post by sodapopcan » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:44 PM UTC

cristaloleg wrote: post #5

Yep, PRs and Issues are affected https://www.githubstatus.com/

Actions are clearly affected too but not represented on the status page.