GitHub wants everyone to use AI agents but if you try to register a new account today you are greeted by an endless gauntlet of absolutely ridiculous captchas that reject you because they think you're an AI agent and nobody should be using AI agents on GitHub.
An update on GitHub availability
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Re: An update on GitHub availability
#262I have a feeling that this post is good enough reassurance for big money corps.
Long live Github under MS!
Re: An update on GitHub availability
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could see them expiring/archiving/deleting inactive projects after some time. I feel like this would have negative impacts (lots of interesting historical archives on Github) but maybe if a project hasn't been touched, or cloned, in some time, it just gets deleted with some notice.
Thing is, projects that don't get touched for months and months are the least costly. Disk space is cheap; what's costly is compute time to process new commits, new/updated/closed issues, new/reviewed/merged PRs, and so on. Inactive projects just sit there taking up disk space but basically zero compute time. So it would make no sense at all for them to delete old, inactive projects. (Which doesn't mean they won't do…
Yeah that's a fair point!
Re: An update on GitHub availability
#264I do not understand how github can still have issues ..
I mean: obviously, in the old world, it would have taken lot of work to improve the situation. But now, with AI, just plug copilot against the code base and everything is fixed in a week, no ?
Re: An update on GitHub availability
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In many of my projects don't show any closed pull requests for the last 6 days. The CLI can list them, but anything going through search shows nothing. Their support acknowledged the issue, but has been silent since then, and the status page still shows nothing other than the potentially-related issue on the 27th. It looks like it has been resolved on some repositories in the meantime, but I still have the issue acro…
I'm not able to see the current release-please PR and the last one broke during release creation so aborted the deploy. Hoping today goes better, but limited expectations after yesterday and may be deploying manualy.
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Re: An update on GitHub availability
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There’s a lot of “won’t someone think of the GitHub employees” on here
Right...employees who are almost certainly paid a whole lot more than I am doing the same job. Many of those employees actually had stock options that exited at unicorn valuation. Must be nice.
No joke, one comment I saw (paraphrase)…
“Imagine how hard it is to work somewhere that is experiencing frequent outages and downtime.”