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Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by FpUser »

taintlord223 wrote: post #33
gen220 wrote: post #6

https://isgithubcooked.com Normally I defend GH in the comments of these incidents but it’s been an impressively bad month by their standards, even when you filter for critical components filter out sev-2’s and 3’s.

The UI of that page is so nice, should build a github competitor. The user profile / contributions and PR UX is pretty much the entire "hub" product since git is a fully separate offline app.

>"The UI of that page is so nice"

Most part screen is taken by picture. Contrast ratio is really low. Hard to read Should they remove that useless banner, current status which is the most interesting part coud've been made visible right away.

I would call this whole thing highly un-ergonomic

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by chris_money202 »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #18

is it me or ever since AI coding became the norm, there have been way more outages with otherwise reliable services? I get downtime on Supabase every few weeks. Even Cloudflare. And now Github

Yes, because that caused the usage of the services to skyrocket, GitHub runs on Azure and Azure is experiencing capacity strain due to AI, so GitHub's services are struggling to auto-scale

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by dijksterhuis »

tux3 wrote: post #27
ricardbejarano wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it painful to use GitLab? Curious, as a user of both, I find them both nice. I like GitLab CI/CD more than I do GHA, but that's personal preference/bias more than anything objective.

Gitlab CI has some tech debt from accumulating geological layers of different ways to do things, but overall it's pretty good, it scales to more complicated setups, and it's not too painful. Now the best way to use GHA is to do the bare minimum. Put all your CI logic in a script that you can test locally, and just have GHA run your script. Even that is painful. And, somehow, impossible to make secure without having s…

expanding on the parent a little

* GiLab — Ops centric

* GitHub — Developer centric

if you just want somewhere to stick a code repo and build a release every so often — dont use gitlab, you will not enjoy it.

> My main problem with Gitlab is that after years I still can't find what I'm looking for in the UI.

i still get lost too after several years daily driving gitlab. this is the Ops centric thing. they provide a lot of options. lots of options is good for Ops.

> Now the best way to use GHA is to do the bare minimum

yeah, i’m an ops guy, so the maintaining custom actions stuff on github is horrible for me vs click a button and move on with my day — once i find the button that is! xD

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by throwatdem12311 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #53
throwatdem12311 wrote: post #42

Maybe GitHub needs to freeze free repository creation until they get this under control because this is ridiculous.

I mean, if we're talking about "fixing" the symptoms of the downtimes rather than the sources and causes, I guess they could just null route github.com until they have things under control? Personally, I think they'd have more luck actually attacking the source, what that might be. Somehow I think Microsoft's push for "Every developer only use AI for development, no manual thinking/coding from now on" is the detrimen…

It’s not just their own slop that’s causing this, it’s also caused by the tsunami of slop being uploaded by vibe coders.

If you want to upload to GitHub, you should pay. The days of charitably giving away compute for the “open source communities” are over.

Grandfather existing public repositories in, then cut it off. Stop the bleeding. It doesn’t have to be forever.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by KptMarchewa »

sibidharan wrote: post #4

Are they running paid marketing campaigns for Gitlab ?

It's so unfortunate that Gitlab is a complete mess, that GitHub has no real competition now. I can only think that few months to a year from now there will be _something_ that works on an enterprise scale.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by KptMarchewa »

swiftcoder wrote: post #54
dist-epoch wrote: post #30

GitHub is not agent scale. Multiple companies are trying to create new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo. It's like switching from horse buggies to automobiles, the whole worlds needs re-architecturing to handle the new load. The age of boutique hand-coding is being replaced by the age of industrial software factories.

> new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo. This is not a particularly novel level of scale. Facebook's mercurial backend had to handle >5,000 developers committing to the singular monorepo long before LLMs were a thing

Yes, on a single repo. Now multiply that per bazillion companies on github, some of which are trying that.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by KptMarchewa »

rvz wrote: post #10

Again? It was just yesterday [0] that GA was down and another incident today? I am convinced that Copilot and Tay.ai are destroying GitHub and there is no CEO of GitHub to contact. Now will you please self-host as I said 6 years ago? [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278635 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

GitHub famously does not have a single 9 of uptime.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by ethagnawl »

goda90 wrote: post #55
throwatdem12311 wrote: post #42

Maybe GitHub needs to freeze free repository creation until they get this under control because this is ridiculous.

Or maybe they need to bring back quality assurance expertise to the company.

And/or move more contextually aware humans with 10K+ hours of hard won experience and fear of failure/sense of pride back into the loop.

Re: Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

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Post by DetroitThrow »

taintlord223 wrote: post #33
gen220 wrote: post #6

https://isgithubcooked.com Normally I defend GH in the comments of these incidents but it’s been an impressively bad month by their standards, even when you filter for critical components filter out sev-2’s and 3’s.

The UI of that page is so nice, should build a github competitor. The user profile / contributions and PR UX is pretty much the entire "hub" product since git is a fully separate offline app.

Lol it's pretty bad UI
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