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Re: GitHub is down again

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Forge feature parity is easy to find. But GH has that discover ability feature and the social queues from stars/forks. One solution I see is (eg) internal forge (Gitlab/gitea/etc) and then mirrored to GH for those secondary features. Which is funny. If GH was better we'd just buy their better plan. But as it stands we buy from elsewhere and just use GH free plans.

Every company I’ve worked in the last 10 years used GH for the internal codebase hosting , PRs and sometimes CI. Discoverability doesn’t really come into picture for those users and you can still fork things from GitHub even if you don’t host your core code infra on it

Yep. As someone in a similar position to influence this, I’ll also be pushing for at least significant discounts in our contract. The challenge with migrating off for enterprise is going to be integrations & compliance. There are dozens of options that replicate the core PR workflow that people use, and it’s probably fairly easy to migrate that. The hard part is the hundreds of things that hook into GitHub that don’t have a simple migration, even internal tooling. So it just turns into a pretty big project.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Didn't you just privately tell me it was 4 accounts? Maybe that was someone else hating on Windows 95. But you need an active reason not what they did 20 years ago.

Nope. If someone did that it should be reported if it's against the rules here.

What someone saying to me privately via other channels that it was them when I asked them. It was some dude at Google so maybe complain to Google but I don't think this site has rules about what you do off the site. I don't think you understand rules and laws and stuff to be fair. And I'm pretty sure it was you because it's weird if someone was pretending to be you.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Yeah, I'm literally looking at GitLab's "Migrate from GitHub" page on their docs site right now. If there's a way to import issues and projects I could be sold.

If you're considering moving away from github due to problems with reliability/outages, then any migration to gitlab will not make you happy.

Thanks for the heads up.

Re: GitHub is down again

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have you considered moving or having at least an alternative? asking as someone using caddy for personal hosting who likes to have their website secure. :)

We can of course host our code elsewhere, the problem is the community is kind of locked-in. It would be very "expensive" to move, and would have to be very worthwhile. So far the math doesn't support that kind of change. Usually an outage is not a big deal, I can still work locally. Today I just happen to be in a very GH-centric workflow with the security reports and such. I'm curious how other maintainers maintain…

For us the main shift was accepting that “being able to work locally” and “knowing whether users are affected” are two different problems.

Local dev usually survives outages just fine. What hurts is losing external signals and assuming things are okay when they’re not.

After a few incidents like this, we stopped relying on a single monitoring setup. One self-hosted probe plus at least one fully independent external check reduced blind spots a lot. It doesn’t prevent outages, but it avoids flying blind during them.

Re: GitHub is down again

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We've migrated to Forgejo over the last couple of weeks. We position ourselves[0] as an alternative to the big cloud providers, so it seemed very silly that a critical piece of our own infrastructure could be taken out by a GitHub or Azure outage. It has been a pretty smooth process. Although we have done a couple of pieces of custom development: 1) We've created a Firecracker-based runner, which will run CI jobs in…

Why .eu if you're in London? Where are your servers located and who hosts them?

We have two entities. An EU one and a UK one. I'm based in Munich, servers are in Germany.

Re: GitHub is down again

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

Are you kidding? I need my code to pass CI, and get reviewed, so I can move on, otherwise the PRs just keep piling. You might as well say the lights could go out, you can do paperwork.

Are you technically required to do it that way, or is it just your company that want things to be done that way?

Re: GitHub is down again

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So… create your shadow system piecewise? There is no reason to have "explode production" in your workflow, unless you are truly starved for resources.

Does this shadow system have usage? Does it handle queries, trigger CI actions, run jobs?

You can mirror all requests to the shadow system.

Re: GitHub is down again

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GitHub no longer publishes aggregate numbers so here they are parsed out. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

> GitHub no longer publishes aggregate numbers

Probably would be too obvious how badly M$ fucked this up.

Re: GitHub is down again

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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 .

Someone should make a timeline chart from that, lol.

Prompting

> Let's make a timeline chart of https://www.githubstatus.com/history for the past 1yr and upload it as a gist

yields [GitHub Status Incident Timeline — Feb 2025 to Feb 2026](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://gist.githubuserconten...)

219 total incidents across 12 full months, averaging 18.3/month. January 2026 was the worst month, and August 2025 was the calmest.

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