GitHub is sinking

Post by QuercusMax » Sun, May 10, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

ExoticPearTree wrote: post #70

johnfn wrote: post #8

Everyone wants to pin this on the Microsoft acquisition or incompetence but it seems pretty clear to me from the material GitHub has posted that AI has 10xed the amount of code being committed to GH, which has downstream effects everywhere - CI, Actions, code ingestion, everywhere. The author pins it on weird things like MS Copilot, which kind of feels like he’s listing off things he doesn’t like rather than casual f…

I like to think that Microsoft is trying to run GitHub in Windows in their Azure cloud. And on the fact that every time GitHub is down I think of "someone updated the Windows Servers GH runs on and had to reboot everything". While I'm 99% sure it is not true, it makes me sleep better at night. And giggle a little when it goes down.

Post by ako » Sun, May 10, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

georgemcbay wrote: post #58

ako wrote: post #41

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I'm sure the underlying infra is not a single server, so this is mostly a period where they have to adapt to higher loads due to AI becoming actually useable in the last 8 months. It's basically proof how well AI works these days. Give it a few months so they can scale and it'll get better. Remember Twitter fail whale? Growth pains that can and will be solved.

> It's basically proof how well AI works these days. Give it a few months so they can scale and it'll get better. Remember Twitter fail whale? Growth pains that can and will be solved. GitHub's problems can technically be solved, but that doesn't mean they can be solved in a way where the economics still work out. If AI use is 10x-ing the amount of infrastructure costs for GitHub but not 10x-ing the amount of money M…

Post by iamkrazy » Sun, May 10, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

lorecore wrote: post #72

iamkrazy wrote: post #10

I installed forgejo on my home server and never looked back. The only problem I face is when hosting an app on DigitalOcean App platform, or vercel etc. They only connect to GitHub.

All of the reasons to avoid GitHub are also reasons to avoid the Digital Ocean App platform and Vercel. I use Digital Ocean, but just the VPSs. Don't let yourself get vendor locked in with these middle men, retain control and shoot for the most universal level of the stack you can.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 10, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

Post by skydhash » Sun, May 10, 2026, 7:18 PM UTC

iamkrazy wrote: post #76

sinpif wrote: post #74

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Similar situation with Apple's Xcode Cloud.

Have never developed on/for apple platform, so I have no clue. Apple makes setting up development so hard, I wonder what motivates developers to jump through all the hoops.