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Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by palata »

mfenniak wrote: post #238
pimpl wrote: post #74

What are good alternatives to GitHub for private repos + actions? I'm considering moving my company off of it because of reliablity issues.

It probably depends on your scale, but I'd suggest self-hosting a Forgejo instance, if it's within your domain expertise to run a service like that. It's not hard to operate, it will be blazing fast, it provides most of the same capabilities, and you'll be in complete control over the costs and reliability. A people have replied to you mentioning Codeberg, but that service is intended for Open Source projects, not pr…

This. I have been using Codeberg and self-hosting Forgejo runners and I'm happy. For personal projects though, I don't know for a company.

Also very happy with SourceHut, though it is quite different (Forgejo looks like a clone of GitHub, really). The SourceHut CI is really cool, too.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by 12_throw_away »

stefankuehnel wrote: post #49

You can literally watch GitHub explode bit by bit. Take a look at the GitHub Status History; it's hilarious: https://www.githubstatus.com/history .

14 incidents in February! It's February 9th! Glad to see the latest great savior phase of the AI industrial complex [1] is going just as well as all the others!

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tech/865689/microsoft-claude-code-a...

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by palata »

porise wrote: post #8

Take it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.

> Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.

Simple: the US stopped caring about antitrust decades ago.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by rhdunn »

Zetaphor wrote: post #195
ewuhic wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't listen to the clueless suggesting Gitlab. It's forgejo (not gitea) or tangled, that's it.

Can you offer some explanation as to why Forgejo and Tangled over Gitlab or Gitea? I personally use Gitea, so I'd appreciate some additional information.

From [1] "Forgejo was created in October 2022 after a for profit company took over the Gitea project."

Forgejo became a hard fork in 2024, with both projects diverging. If you're using it for local hosting I don't personally see much of a difference between them, although that may change as the two projects evolve.

[1] https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by StilesCrisis »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #84
burningChrome wrote: post #58

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At its core antitrust cases are about monopolies and how companies use anti-competitive conduct to maintain their monopoly. Github isn't the only source control software in the market. Unless they're doing something obvious and nefarious, its doubtful the justice department will step in when you can simply choose one of many others like Bitbucket, Sourcetree, Gitlab, SVN, CVS, Fossil, DARCS, or Bazaar. There's just t…

> you can simply choose one of many others Not really. It's a network effect, like Facebook. Value scales quadratically with the number of users, because nobody wants to "have to check two apps". We should buy out monopolies like the Chinese government does. If you corner the market, then you get a little payout and a "You beat capitalism! Play again?" prize. Other companies can still compete but the customers will g…

Forever, for sure, definitely. State sponsored projects are never subject to the whims of uninformed outsiders.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

showerst wrote: post #7

If you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no. If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an all-time own goal in our industry.

This is obviously empty speculation, but I wonder if the mindless rush to AI has anything to do with the increase in outages we've seen recently.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by mrweasel »

peartickle wrote: post #246
chasd00 wrote: post #215

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i would imagine that's what everyone is doing instead of sitting on their hands. Setup a different remote and have your team push/pull to/from it until Github comes back up. I mean you could probably use ngrok and setup a remote on your laptop in a pinch. You shouldn't be totally blocked except for things like automated deployments or builds tied specifically to github.com Distributed source control is distributable.

It's also fun when a Jr. on the team distributes the .env file via Git...

Couldn't you avoid that with .gitignore and pre-commit hooks? A determined Jr. can still mess it up, but you can minimize the risk.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by ajross »

sgt wrote: post #136
panarky wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Github lost at least one 9, if not two, since last year's "existential" migration to Azure.

Is there any reason why Github needs 99.99% uptime? You can continue working with your local repo.

I think this is being downvoted unfairly. I mean, sure, as a company accepting payment for services, being down for a few hours every few months is notably bad by modern standards.

But the inward-looking point is correct: git itself is a distributed technology, and development using it is distributed and almost always latency-tolerant. To the extent that github's customers have processes that are dependent on services like bug tracking and reporting and CI to keep their teams productive, that's a bug with the customer's processes. It doesn't have to be that way and we as a community can recognize that even if the service provider kinda sucks.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by latexr »

slyzmud wrote: post #158
munk-a wrote: post #65

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You know what I think would reverse the trend? More vibe coding!

I know you are joking but I'm sure that there is at least one director or VP inside GitHub pushing a new salvation project that must use AI to solve all the problems, when actually the most likely reason is engineers are drawing in tech debt.

> I'm sure that there is at least one director or VP inside GitHub pushing a new salvation project that must use AI to solve all the problems

GitHub is under Microsoft’s CoreAI division, so that’s a pretty sure bet.

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/github-will-join-microsofts-co...

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