They Just published this blog post https://github.blog/2023-05-16-addressing-githubs-recent-ava...
Someone should invent a decentralized version control system so we can avoid these kinds of widespread events.
At this point it looks obvious that GitHub RIF’d a bus factor earlier this year.
While new features like search are appreciated, I wish GitHub would focus on stability for a bit, things have gotten pretty so-so
Looks like it's back up. Still, this seems like an absurd absurd amount of issues recently
Worst timing! Just had an incident and had to deploy a hotfix. Pushes weren't working and I thought I was going crazy.
Who would have thought software could be such an adrenaline rush. Move over Alex Honnold!
See also this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967797 which just came up about GitHub stability sentiment.
Spoke to Gitlab rep today about our renewal price (prices going up by 50%+, 25% with "existing customer discount) and the rep used reliability as a key differentiator against GitHub.
I quickly pointed about a major outage affecting Gitlabs shared runners which prevented us from deploying a hot fix (we worked around it, but was a ton of stress and extra work).
Again? Last time this happened was 5 days ago. [0]
It is not even the end of the month and the outages are increasing every month and it is now chronically unreliable. Seriously, we have given GitHub more than 3 years to improve and it clearly isn't working. That is plenty of time.
At this point, you might as well self-host like the rest of the open source projects out there, since GitHub is falling apart every week and it seems to be more reliable to self-host than to sit on GitHub, go all in and tolerate these outages every calendar month.
Nothing to worry about. These instabilities are probably caused by Open AI/Copilot improvements gradually becoming Skynet.
Seriously now: these instabilities happened a lot on the past weeks. I wonder what's going on there.
A moment of silence for all of the nines we lost today.
Haven’t been able to go to GitHub.com for over 15 minutes now, just returns a 500. Pretty ironic given their latest blogpost
Can we all stop hating on github already?
I assume most people don't even pay for it with their public and private non-work repos. Github has been a major supporter of OpenSource projects and while their uptime could use some help, everyone is struggling right now with RIFs and fewer resources.
That's just my $0.02
Login is currently broken. Has been for about 10m…
Can't create new branches :(
It seems like GitHub is down at least once a month now, but more like weekly on average.
Is this because of Microsoft? If so, why? Are they bad at cloud?
Time to move to gitlab or something else.
Started as a joke that this was daily. Now it's no much of a joke.
Yep, I'm unable to push.
PR service is back :=)
github.com is 500'ing for me
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I was just saying it's kind of ironic that pre-acquisition GitHub inspired confidence, and Microsoft-owned GitHub has been more "move fast and break things."
I also don't just mean outages like this... it's clear that Microsoft GitHub has been cramming a bunch of new stuff into the UI and not really treating it with care. I notice very amateur UI bugs, misalignment, bad spacing, overlapping elements, etc. all the time now. It was clear that old GitHub passed through a professional designer's eye quite carefully (or maybe just a developer with extreme attention to detail).