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Re: GitHub Is Down

#51

The 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.

GitHub's reliability has gotten pretty terrible since the Microsoft acquisition, well before ZIRP ended.

Re: GitHub Is Down

#55
The last few days, the “create pr” screen kept hanging for me. I figured out I could reload it, click “create”, grab a coffee, and then come back and it’d be at the next screen.

Maybe it’s time to learn their CLI (and then patiently wait for work to switch to another git service).

Re: GitHub Is Down

#56

The 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.

Citation needed?

Is this true beyond github and slack? Both were acquired btw, that could explain their availability issues (just like twitter, now X).

What about e.g. AWS or GCP? Has their availability meaningfully reduced?

Re: GitHub Is Down

#58
post #22

There'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.…

You're not alone. There's been an effort to transparently update the UI to a React implementation over the past year or two, and while I understand the benefits to that approach, they have introduced some flakiness in moving away from a the server-rendered pjax/html-pipeline/simple web components approach that was so cohesive and battle tested over the decade before it.

Re: GitHub Is Down

#60
post #26

Who'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/

Did you mean to say Forgejo? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Codeberg is simply hosting a Forgejo instance for you, so not exactly self hosting.
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