We're barely starting to see AI's impact on infra - probably (FWIW https://diversion.dev is at 100% uptime. Different scale, obviously, but also we're not Microsoft.)
GitHub is having issues now
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Re: GitHub is having issues now
#92Reminder to all OSS projects: it is extraordinarily easy to setup a simple CI job to keep your code in sync between multiple Forges. And getting email notifications from a second Forge is 0 extra effort. At least give people the option to start moving away from GitHub to contribute to your project. It will, ultimately, be better for the ecosystem.
Setting up own GitLab instance might be a good solution too.
Re: GitHub is having issues now
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or last week's "If you use merge queue, oopsie, we accidentally destroyed your trunk", which also failed silently.
We happen to build the perfect solution to avoiding GitHubs Merge Queue - ours :) It’s also massively more performant https://trunk.io/merge-queue
while external merge queues offer a ton more features, i wouldn't describe any of them as 'perfect' based on the simple fact the UX is bolted on. github continues to display their native UI components for merging, and users are forced to interact via arcane commands in comments or external CLIs/webpages. not ideal!
Re: GitHub is having issues now
#94Just today I finished migrated all my public and private repositories to Forgejo, with a push mirror to Codeberg for relevant public repos.
It's unbeleivably snappy and fast. I can't recommend Forgejo enough.
Re: GitHub is having issues now
#95We're barely starting to see AI's impact on infra - probably (FWIW https://diversion.dev is at 100% uptime. Different scale, obviously, but also we're not Microsoft.)
I suggest testing your website with uBlock (and all its filter lists enabled). All I see is an almost empty page. Don't point to JS or CSS on third-party CDNs because due to the changes in cross-site sharing, neither Chrome nor Firefox will benefit from cacheing.
Re: GitHub is having issues now
#96Re: GitHub is having issues now
#97Yeah I think I've finally had enough. I need to start seriously advocating for alternatives since this is starting to impact our business. It's clearly not getting any better.
Go ahead. We've been self-hosting Gitea with Drone/Woodpecker for years; either it or Forgejo will do fine if you're okay with their feature set. I sometimes wander into these GitHub threads to have a laugh; our Gitea instance has had several minutes of downtime combined over the last few years, all of them planned (to upgrade Gitea) and in the middle of the night.
Ooh, Woodpecker CI works with Gitea and Forgejo. https://woodpecker-ci.org/ That might be last piece I needed to migrating Git repos from GitHub to a self-hosted forge.
Edit: Actually there's Gitea Actions and Forgejo Actions, that might be enough for my use case.
Re: GitHub is having issues now
#98Every time Github goes down, a few more people move to ethical alternatives and reduce the FOSS community having a SPOF in Microsoft. https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
SPOF = Single Point of Failure
Re: GitHub is having issues now
#99This is bigger than github: https://downdetector.com
Looks like Azure might be the common denominator.
Re: GitHub is having issues now
#100Yeah I think I've finally had enough. I need to start seriously advocating for alternatives since this is starting to impact our business. It's clearly not getting any better.
Was thinking the same honestly. GH is very sticky though, especially when you have actions and all kinds of other integrations set up. But it’s just kind of absurd at this point how many outages they have.