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Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by HoldOnAMinute »

sobjornstad wrote: post #8
noodlesUK wrote: post #3

Can someone in GitHub senior leadership please start paying attention and reprioritise towards actually delivering a product that's at least relatively reliable? I moved my company over to GH enterprise last year (from AzDO) and I'm considering moving us away to another vendor altogether as a result of the constant partial outages. Things that used to "just work" now are slow in the UI, and GH actions fail to schedul…

I second this. GitHub used to be a fantastic product. Now it barely even works. Even basic functionality like the timeline updating when I push commits is unreliable. The other day I opened a PR diff (not even a particularly large one) and it took fully 15 seconds after the page visually finished loading -- on a $2,000 dev machine -- before any UI elements became clickable. This happened repeatedly. It is fairly stun…

The trend of "non-functional software" is happening everywhere. See the recent articles about Copilot in Notepad, failing to start because you aren't signed in with your Microsoft Account.

We are in a future that nobody wanted.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by 1f60c »

kasey_junk wrote: post #5
noodlesUK wrote: post #3

Can someone in GitHub senior leadership please start paying attention and reprioritise towards actually delivering a product that's at least relatively reliable? I moved my company over to GH enterprise last year (from AzDO) and I'm considering moving us away to another vendor altogether as a result of the constant partial outages. Things that used to "just work" now are slow in the UI, and GH actions fail to schedul…

“ I enjoy GH copilot as much as the next person” So not at all?

That does seem to be the implication, yes. :D

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by zero_shift »

noodlesUK wrote: post #3

Can someone in GitHub senior leadership please start paying attention and reprioritise towards actually delivering a product that's at least relatively reliable? I moved my company over to GH enterprise last year (from AzDO) and I'm considering moving us away to another vendor altogether as a result of the constant partial outages. Things that used to "just work" now are slow in the UI, and GH actions fail to schedul…

As an aside, God, Azure DevOps, what a total pile of crap that product is

My "favourite" restriction that an Azure DevOps PR description is limited to a pathetic 4000 characters.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by reactordev »

kevmo314 wrote: post #12

I wonder if GitHub is feeling the crush of fully automated development workflows? Must be a crazy number of commits now to personal repos that will never convert to paid orgs.

This is the real scenario behind the scenes. They are struggling with scale.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by winddude »

kevmo314 wrote: post #12

I wonder if GitHub is feeling the crush of fully automated development workflows? Must be a crazy number of commits now to personal repos that will never convert to paid orgs.

I was wondering about that the other day, the sheer amount of code, repos, and commits being generated now with AI. And probably more large datasets as well.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by devy »

They were talking about prioritizing migration into Azure for a long while now. Not sure this incident today is related.

https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

And coincidentally, an early CircleCI engineer wrote an article about GitHub Action (TLDR: don't use GitHub Action for CI/CD!)

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-act...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908491

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