Another GitHub outage in the same day

Post by rcakebread » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 1:18 AM UTC

tazjin wrote: post #131

bigbuppo wrote: post #94

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Not going to happen. This is terminal decline. Next step is to kill off free repos, and then they'll start ratcheting up the price to the point that they have one small dedicated engineering team supporting each customer they have. They will have exactly one customer. At some point they'll end up owned by Broadcom, OpenText, Rocket, or Progress.

Killing off free repos is not going to happen. That would be a suicide move on the level of the Digg redesign, or Tumblr's porn ban. It kind of would be good for everyone if they did do it though. Need to get rid of this monopoly, and maybe people will discover that there are alternatives with actually good workflows out there.

Post by cebert » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 1:23 AM UTC

matthewisabel wrote: post #135

sobjornstad wrote: post #8

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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…

Hey from the GitHub team. Outages like this are incredibly painful and we'll share a post-mortem once our investigation is complete. It stings to have this happen as we're putting a lot of effort specifically into the core product, growing teams like Actions and increasing performance-focused initiatives on key areas like pull requests where we're already making solid progress[1]. Would love if you would reach out to…

Post by h4kunamata » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #160

h4kunamata wrote: post #143

GitLab is the solution, if you aren't on it already. I worked for one of Australia largest airline company, monthly meeting with Github team resumed in one word: AI There is zero focus into the actual platform as we knew it, it is all AI, Copilot, more AI and more Copilot. If you are expecting things to get better, I have bad news for you. Copilot is not being adopted by companies as they hoped, they are using Claude…

Do they have their own model? I thought Copilot was a frontend for Clause et. al..

Post by Andrex » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC

amarant wrote: post #142

Andrex wrote: post #102

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Things don't always ramp up after 2-4 years. Sometimes MS just kills the project or company after that period of time. See also their moves in the gaming industry.

Heh, I was working at 2 of those gaming companies when they were acquired by m$. I almost fear taking another job in the gaming industry, there seems to be some kind of bastardised version of Murphy's law that any gaming company that hires me will be acquired by ms 6 months later. I mean, that's obviously not the case, but it's weird that it happened twice!

Post by bethekidyouwant » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 1:58 AM UTC

noodlesUK wrote: post #52

sodapopcan wrote: post #37

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Ya, it really was one of the most enjoyable web apps to use pre-MS. I'm sure there are lots of things that have contributed to this downfall. We certainly didn't need bullshit features like achievements.

Even just a year or two ago its web interface was way snappier. Now an issue with a non-trivial number of comments, or a PR with a diff of even just a few hundred or thousand lines of changes causes my browser to lock up.