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GitHub Is Down
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Re: GitHub Is Down
#32Who's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?
Personal projects are on a vps and accessed through ssh. I’ve self-hosted gitea, then forgejo, then found out that I don’t like the interface or the auth dance. My plan is to ise cgit if I want something to be public and any forge if the purpose is collaboration (sourcehut is nice)
Re: GitHub Is Down
#33The industry made a general decision after ZIRP ended to deprioritise availability after years of historic levels of engineering investment. It's no surprise we're now feeling those effects but damn, GitHub and other services like Slack have been really bad lately.
Or, GitHub used to favor stability back in the day, and there wasn't a lot of changes. People were complaining that GitHub didn't "improve" enough day-to-day, so after the Microsoft purchase, Microsoft started forcing GitHub to add more features, stability be damned.
Most outages are caused not by stuff just randomly breaking, but updates/upgrades going wrong. If you try to increase the output of new features/changes to a platform, you're bound to have more outages and downtime if you aren't more careful than before.
Microsoft, who never really excelled at engineering, to the surprise of absolutely everyone, choose adding features over stability and since years back, we're seeing the consequences of that choice.
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#34There's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation. GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to.…
That's actually a really interesting way to leverage that feature. Have you found this easier than other services built specifically for this use case?
I've tried other tools. But I'm on GitHub most days, so it's been a seamless way to keep track of some things that would otherwise disappear into a calendar, or some tool that I don't use as often.
Re: GitHub Is Down
#35Re: GitHub Is Down
#36Who's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?
It all began 5 years ago [0] when we wanted to 'centralize everything to GitHub.'
Then, the outages accelerated from there.
Re: GitHub Is Down
#37There's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation. GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to.…
I am not experiencing a full outage right now, but I am experiencing very slow (spinner) and flakey (error that works again on repeat).
So perhaps it's the same problem, that's been getting more prevalent until it was noticeable by monitoring. One can hope!
Re: GitHub Is Down
#38If I'm not wrong, this is the third week in a row with GitHub incidents, isn't it?
Re: GitHub Is Down
#39Who's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?
Speaking of self hosting, Codeberg [1] is great. It's open and it looks and behaves pretty much like GitHub (unlike GitLab). [1] https://codeberg.org/
Seconded. Hosting FOSS on a platform that isn't FOSS itself and run by a for-profit company who tried to work against FOSS for so long (Microsoft) doesn't make much sense to me.
Instead, we should dogfood the FOSS ecosystem on a platform that is FOSS itself, and run as a non-profit. Codeberg, for better or worse, is the best platform for this today.
Re: GitHub Is Down
#40Bitbucket was down for a few hours a week ago and 0 fuss was made about it in the media. Atlassian stock actually went up over the ourage
Because literally nobody uses it.