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Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by h4kunamata »

rohanmallya wrote: post #212
h4kunamata wrote: post #205

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To the best of my knowledge, Copilot is a Microsof in-house thing and it sucks on everything. Claude is far superior and Microsoft is allegedly using Claude internally over its own AI solution.

Github Copilot is just a front-end. You pay for the frontend and some premium requests every month. The base models like GPT 4o, 4.1 don’t have a usage cap. Models like Claude Sonet, Opus, etc have a monthly limit and you can pay more to use these through Github Copilot.

>Github Copilot is just a front-end

Yes, Copilot is often used to refer to both frontend and backend.

Also, the chatbot aka Copilot must have features on its own. Like I say to Roo Code/Cline on VSCode: Write a python script to output hello world.

And they will do exactly that, Roo Code is pretty impressive. Copilot on its own is dogshit and when using it the same way I would use Perplexity AI or ChatGPT, it is twice as much dogshit.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by theamk »

mrshu wrote: post #163

This (multiple major outages a day) has unfortunately been happening for quite a while now -- on the 2nd of February, 2026 for instance. The GitHub Status Page does not visualize these very well but you can see them parsed out and aggregated here: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

this one does not seem to be updated? last outage is Feb 6...

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by jrochkind1 »

Etheryte wrote: post #139
matthewisabel wrote: post #135

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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…

Literally everyone who has used Github to look at a pull request in say the last year has experienced the ridiculous performance issues. It's a constant laughing point on HN at this point. There is no way you don't know this. Inviting to take this to a private channel, along with the rest of your comment really, is simply standard corporate PR.

I look at pull requests daily, I haven't encountered the problems you speak of, not sure what they are.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by habitable5 »

tayo42 wrote: post #188
habitable5 wrote: post #47

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> We are in a future that nobody wanted. some people wanted this future and put in untold amount of money to make it happen. Hint: one of them is a rabid Tolkien fan.

Who is it?

Peter Thiel.

Evil incarnate and the next president of the United States you've never heard of. Vance is his sock puppet, he was chosen because he is guaranteed not to have a single independent thought so when Trump croaks Thiel will be the president in all but name.

It was also he who willed OpenAI to be in order to help destroying American democracy.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by zx8080 »

its_magic wrote: post #107
heliumtera wrote: post #95

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Then why is it the future we have?

It was a complete accident. Nobody could have foreseen it. We are currently experiencing the sudden discovery that Microsoft is an evil corporation and maybe putting everything in the cloud wasn't the best move after all.

> Sudden discovery

Sudden for 15-years old's only.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by zx8080 »

hunterpayne wrote: post #191
danudey wrote: post #151

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The new design/architecture allows them to do great stuff in the name of efficiency; for example, when browsing through some parts of the UI, it's now much more capable of just updating the part of the page that's changed, rather than having to reload the entire thing. This is a significantly better approach for a lot of things. I understand that the 'updating the part of the page that's changed' functionality is now…

> for example, when browsing through some parts of the UI React allows this? I didn't realize that I needed React to do this when we used Java and Js to do this 20 years ago. I also didn't realize I needed React to do this when we used Scala and generated Js to do this 10 years ago. JFC, the world didn't start when you turned 18.

Shhh, don't insult them. It's the lost art of doing stuff smart and efficient. Now the trend is doing stuff _vibe_ instead.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by bethekidyouwant »

deathanatos wrote: post #219
bethekidyouwant wrote: post #209

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Which website lets you load PRs with 1000 lines and it’s fast? Honest question, it’s not gitlab.

It's ~80 KiB. Do you think 80 KiB should be slow? GH just a few days ago told me that it couldn't fetch the files changed because there were too many files changed. There were 4.

You didn’t answer the question

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by vbezhenar »

amarant wrote: post #73
HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #21

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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.

Not quite everywhere. There's a common denominator for all of those: Microsoft. Their business is buying good products and turning them into shit, while wringing every cent they can out of the business. Always has been. They have a grace period of about 2-4 years after acquisition where interference is minimal. Then it ramps up. How long a product can survive once the interference begins largely depends on how good s…

I remember how crazy Skype originally was.

At my first company we used Skype to communicate with each other. Mostly chats and files.

One day our internet cable to the office got cut by someone. Well, we didn't realize that for some time, because Skype just continued to work without Internet. It was like a miracle. It was unique software, there's nothing like it even today.

I think that the first thing Microsoft did after they bought Skype is making Internet mandatory, probably to spy on all chats.

Re: Another GitHub outage in the same day

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Post by stevekemp »

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…

GitLab is no improvement over github, their features are frequently half-baked, their site is slow, and outages are just as common.

I used to like Gitlab, and I've self-hosted enterprise versions of both github and gitlab, and strongly believe migration from one of them to the other for "improved reliability" will be utterly underwhelming and pointless.

Gitlab used to be able to take the high-ground due to the open-core model, but these days I'm not even sure if that makes an appreciable difference.

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