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Days without GitHub incidents
- tayo42 6mo agoI wonder what morale is like at github. This is like gamer level hating
- beanjuiceII 6mo ago[flagged]
- honeycrispy 6mo agothis is some good life advice
- H8crilA 6mo agoand it leads to triple 9 availability (80.999%), or better
- tardedmeme 6mo agoYou want to get feedback from your picky free-customer "children" before it's your enterprise customers talking about data egress.
- busterarm 6mo agoWhose opinions are left? The adults are all moving elsewhere. Heck I stopped using it for projects in 2018, even before the acquisition. My company was going to end a 6-figure YoY contract with a GitHub Actions competitor to move to GitHub, but scrapped those plans and renewed this morning. That move had been in planning for like 6 months.
- jedberg 6mo agoIt's not great. Just talked to a hubber last week. They said everyone inside feels pretty dejected right now, and these posts don't help. I feel for them -- with AI coders submitting 25 PRs within an hour of an issue being filed, GitHub bears the brunt of that along with the maintainers. That's a lot of work that gets done with each PR. But they need to make some changes quickly.
- giwook 6mo agoI wouldn't feel too bad for them with their top-of-market comp and valuable RSU packages.
- batshit_beaver 6mo agoGitHub doesn't pay top of market.
- giwook 6mo agoYou're right. That being said, 300k TC for E4 is still pretty good. Plus the RSUs have gone up like 60% in the last several years so that 300k package from a few years ago is maybe 350k or more by now. My point is that they are compensated well. They should be feeling pressure to get this stuff right when their product is core infrastructure for a majority of the digital products that exist today.
- jedberg 6mo agoI don't believe they pay top of market, but even if they did, it's possible to make a lot of money and still feel bad when you have a sense of ownership and responsibility to the users of your service.
- giwook 6mo agoYou missed my point.
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- kedihacker 6mo agoI don't think aggregating the whole platform into one number is fair. It's like adding the whole aws into one number
- blinded 6mo agoGithub has far less services and regions that AWS.
- stevekemp 6mo agoOn the other hand when you have a reasonably complex deployment it's easy to get swamped with dashboards showing CPU, Memory, I/O, application-metrics, signups, active users/sessions, etc. Instead it's nice to think about how you can express the state of a complete system as a single number. It might be you divide active user sessions by database-connections, and then scale by memory capacity. But as a single digit you can then get used to normal ranges, and have it always visible somewhere obvious. A single number won't show details, but when it changes you can go look at the specific metrics. It's a cute shorthand, and it can work well as a basic "are we normal" check.
- tensegrist 6mo agosplitting the status page like they do, to the point where it is only a bit of humourous exaggeration to say that they track broken `git push` and `git pull` separately, is a sleight of hand / accounting / SLA-fudging that we should not excuse there is a subset of the site that pretty much everyone uses — git, issues, pull requests, actions — and if any part of that is broken then the site is broken and the status page should indicate how often this happens
- remus 6mo ago> splitting the status page like they do, to the point where it is only a bit of humourous exaggeration to say that they track broken `git push` and `git pull` separately, is a sleight of hand / accounting / SLA-fudging that we should not excuse This is a pretty ungenerous take. You could look at it the other way: if I don't use actions then it's useful for me to know that only actions are broken, and I can continue in my normal usage. If you bundle everything up then the status page is reporting an unhelpful false positive for me.
- mproud 6mo agoSupposedly commits on GitHub are up 14x YoY.
- dotwaffle 6mo agoCommits or pushes? Commits aren't really a worthwhile source of measurement in terms of load.
- reaperducer 6mo agoSupposedly commits on GitHub are up 14x YoY. So? If Microsoft can't scale, who can? If it can't provide the service, it should stop selling until it can. This is like the AOL dialup busy signal fiasco of the mid-90's all over again. Except this time, instead of getting mad, people are making excuses for the poor, beleaguered trillion-dollar company.
- jh00ker 6mo ago>If it can't provide the service, it should stop selling until it can. You literally cannot buy GitHub Copilot right now [1]. 1: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans https://github.com/features/copilot/plans
- Scubabear68 6mo agoPrecisely. If Microsoft can't scale something like Git 14x, then the problem is with Microsoft.
- ex-aws-dude 6mo agoThey are getting spammed by AI agents?
- masklinn 6mo agoIs it spam when they’ve been pushing for this shit and putting AI prompt everywhere fir a year or more?
- lwansbrough 6mo ago
- dijit 6mo agoLots of apologia for Github here. Aside from the fact that defending a billion-dollar company is a bit strange; especially one that is steward to the the overwhelming majority of open-source software. Maybe that's good-will doing the work? For me it's always been a sour pill to swallow that I have to buy in to a large companies internal politics and practices in order to work on projects I love. I don't feel like I owe them anything. Especially if they can't hold up their end of the deal. Unfettered access to the world's software repositories, for the princely sum of a bucketload of Azure credits.
- Imustaskforhelp 6mo agoI think its the fact that people have used the software for so long that they feel emotional to it (Hashimoto crying tears of sadness when he decided to move ghostty away from github) and there is completely nothing wrong about it as we are emotional human beings. But, you are right in the sense that, Github has failed to accept its part of the deal which is actually to just be a usable place. People HAVE previously tolerated so much AI slop and slowness in github's UI just because of its reliability but this downtime is like the Github's achilles heel. At some point, I recommend people to accept this and move to more healthier alternatives, there is also an momentum. For example, the only reason I joined github was that I wanted to join codeberg but so many of projects used github and involved sign in with github that I finally gave in into github and I had thought that codeberg is so good but nobody is gonna come here because of the network effects but the tide is turning and I hope more people look into codeberg and healthier alternatives.
- EduardoBautista 6mo agoDefending a multi-trillion dollar company you mean (Microsoft).
- IshKebab 6mo ago> Maybe that's good-will doing the work? Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve a lot of good will.
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- reilly3000 6mo agoThis is a real business continuity issue for us. We’re kinda stuck with GitHub Enterprise but we may need to move from cloud to on-premises if this keeps up.
- baby_souffle 6mo ago> We’re kinda stuck with GitHub Enterprise but we may need to move from cloud to on-premises if this keeps up. Make sure you cache all the actions you need locally if you go this route otherwise it's not much of an improvement.
- hx8 6mo agoMicrosoft is causing Github incidents when Azure data-centers are too hot and they need to make room for Palantir's workload.
- NBJack 6mo agoThis wouldn't surprise me at all, but I'd appreciate evidence to that effect.
- ProofHouse 6mo agoLove. Hope Github is a relic of the past inside 12 months
- hootz 6mo agoWon't happen. Stars are money.
- badgersnake 6mo agoBecoming a joke is the one think that could end the GitHub monopoly.
- samgranieri 6mo agoGitHub is not a monopoly. It never has been. You've always been able to self-host or you can use gogs, gitea, gitlab, bitbucket, you get the idea
- badgersnake 6mo agoGood luck with that. GitHub stars is literally a criteria VCs use for funding.
- SwellJoe 6mo agoWith Github going up and down and Ubuntu going up and (mostly) down, there's a lot of time for intra-office sword fighting or whatever, lately. If somebody takes down Claude, everybody's going to have to just go home for the day. (https://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/)
- zem 6mo agoquite literally kicking github while it's down!
- nifty_beaks 6mo agoHoly bootlickers Batman.
- annoyingnoob 6mo agoMeanwhile, my local Gitlab install just hums along no issues.
- frizlab 6mo agoShould be 0 today AFAIK EDIT: I’m a moron, lol.
- javier123454321 6mo agoThat purple to blue gradient is the emdash of css.
- steviedotboston 6mo agonot joking, is there a github repo for this project?
- Jonpro03 6mo agoNo - I made this as a joke for work. Didn't think anyone would look at it!
- thangalin 6mo agohttps://repo.autonoma.ca/treetrek https://repo.autonoma.ca/treetrek My free, open-source, bare-bones, caching-free, dependency-free, authentication- and authorization-free pure PHP raw Git viewer. I developed it because GitList blew out my shared host's drive space and memory (due to a caching bug) and to consolidate my GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab repos. There's something rewarding about self-hosting and not being beholden to the whims of third parties.
- dpe82 6mo agoI recently moved all my projects to a self-hosted forgejo instance and have found it quite satisfactory so far. And it's fast! If you're in the market for a github alternative, take a look - there are options.
- xp84 6mo agoIt’s not fashionable anymore, but I feel that Phabricator deserves an honorable mention as a self-hostable GH alternative too. Actually its “dated” UI is kind of a plus considering how bad everything is now.
- dijit 6mo agoI unironically love the aesthetics of Phabricator. I also like stacked PRs (which is mercurials default).. Maybe it's worth a shot tbh.
- rpearl 6mo agoIt's not "unfashionable". Phabricator has been unmaintained since 2021.
- badsectoracula 6mo agoThere is Phorge which is a community fork.
- ErroneousBosh 6mo agoIt seems that Phorge is the community-run fork of it that's still worked on. Looks good!
- SpaceNoodled 6mo agoI always balked at GitHub, but was impressed with git very soon after I was first introduced; I migrated from an old Gitea instance to Forgejo for my personal projects and have been very happy with it.
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- deferredgrant 6mo ago[flagged]
- sailfast 6mo agoFeature request: can you make it look like a chalk board from an old manufacturing plant in the appropriate Green? :)
- spearmint27 6mo agoA vibe coded app that most likely contributed to the onslaught of vibe coded apps that are causing Github to go down. I feel bad for the people working at Github who are basically trying to keep a sinking ship afloat and Microsoft doing everything they can to sink their own ship.
- tdiff 6mo agoNot buying that untill they use a picture from the Simpsons
- gyoridavid 6mo agoI'm pretty sure we all took down a production enterprise system once or twice. At InVision we had an incident every week, despite all the SOPs and safety nets. And that way waaay before vibe coding..
- h14h 6mo agoI'm currently setting up a self-hosted "Knot" for use on tangled.org. Mainly doing it because I think AtProto is cool and self-hosting is fun, but also because owning the infrastructure that hosts my projects is definitely the direction I want to move in. Tangled's Knot system feels like a really strong abstraction for this. I host the data in an AtProto Repository, but can rely on a third party to host/manage the AtProto Application that presents it to the rest of the world. If Tangled goes under, I can happily take my AtProto login to a different platform and point it at my Knot without changing a thing about my hosting setup. Much more convenient that hosting an entire, siloed webapp on my own corner of the internet.
- robinduckett 6mo agoThis is embarrassing.