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Re: GitHub is once again down

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ahartmetz wrote: post #209
Barrin92 wrote: post #127

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>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

>We are absolutely ramming AI and Copilot down people's throats >We do not have enough capacity for AI and Copilot, basic functionality is falling apart Is this sanity or something other than sanity?

You’re not supposed to do the math. You’re supposed to nod and say “oh, yes, that makes sense.”

Re: GitHub is once again down

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hparadiz wrote: post #145
someperson wrote: post #104

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GitHub has been unreliable since before AI. Though it's definitely gotten far worse. Seemingly the decline started with the Microsoft acquisition in 2018, and subsequent "unlimited private repository" change in 2019 (to match Gitlab's popular offer)

One example is the search being broken for CI logs. It takes over your browser's search hotkey too. What happens is every stage of the log is collapsed so the search doesn't work until you trigger the expansion but if you attempt to search before expanding the search will never work after it's been initialized. It's pretty infuriating when you're trying to find something in a giant build log.

It really gives you a sense that no one at GitHub finds it necessary to search those logs.

Which I find…unusual.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by scrubs »

Barrin92 wrote: post #127
spondyl wrote: post #110

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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

Agree. I do not give a cat's whisker about AI for source control. 0.0%. Notta. Nothing.
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