by AlexB138
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- Github has published some incredible usage rate increase numbers, which they ascribe to the rise of agentic coding. At some point, they are going to have to change rate limits, cut free-tier usage, or find some other path to reducing load. It's clear that their infrastructure can't keep up with this significant increase, and it's unlikely that they're going to just absorb the increased costs themselves.
Very curious to see what the future holds for Github.
- Github has 84.92% uptime in the last 90 days according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses
I don't know how this is even remotely close to acceptable.
by indianhippie
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- This is reaching an unacceptable level of performance. There isn't a week that work isn't interrupted by GH.
- At this point, "GH is down" posts are competing with "Newest LLM Hype" for the HN front-page week over week.
For my personal project, I've been considering moving everything over to Codeberg. Stability of GH being one reason, but I also like the idea of an alternative that is not strictly tied to a big tech company.
by matthew_hre
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- Hilariously, it looks like basically everything except Copilot is degraded. The jokes write themselves sometimes.
- It feels weird (sad?) that I'm starting to get a sixth sense for when Github is going to a service disruption.
About an hour ago, clicking "Resolve Conversation" in a Pull Request failed a few times with an error message that appeared lower on the page (outside the viewport), and which I did not see the first few times. I had to reload the page after every few actions to get the server to register new ones.
I told a colleague, and added "Github might be having an issue with some other service, and it's just bleeding over to PR comments? Maybe it will snowball into a larger outage?"
- 2027: "GitHub is up!"
- The Internet infrastructure is not ready for all of these "generated" activity.
Eventually it will be!
by jfrbfbreudh
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- Reduce the free tier.
I’ve made 4000 commits in the last 2.5 months. That’s just to main. And I push up tons of artifacts daily for regression testing.
For $0.
- This is really getting ridiculous - although people sometimes dismiss the "missing" status page because it includes copilot, it's worth noting that pull requests (95.5%) are even lower availability than copilot (96.4%).
How am I expected to comment "LGTM" if I can't even get to the PR?
- At least people are gaining knowledge of how to use the git remote command.
- At this point we can just have a Bot repost this exact submission every day and it would be right more often than not.
- The best time for GH to increase prices was 6 months ago, or so. No service is going to weather the storm of agentic code overload unscathed. But at least they could become an expensive-but-working solution instead of the sad comedy they're now, and thus keep their most lucrative customers.
by faangguyindia
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- I have been writing lots of code lately
And I still only have local git repository.
I do not like why git doesn't have a built in bug or issue tracker and a kanban board or something.
I wished Git and Fossil hybrid should have won.
I thought about using fossil many times but it seems codex and claude have deeper integration with git.
I don't like installing software which keeps growing into infinite feature Monster. Maybe I'll install gitea or forgjo idk.
That's the last piece of puzzle remaining for me I've already mastered deployment and HA on bare metal from OVH and Hertzner, already have scaled to tons of users
- Last time they had a very loose explanation that did not align with their timings. I wonder what Copilot is cooking up this time. Hardware upgrade?
by datadrivenangel
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- Edit: the status page is still all green for today, but the incident is there.
pre-edit: They just removed the incident and set the status page to all green as of 10:01 PT???
- I keep wondering what causing such a bad service from GH lately, is it the overuse of AI generated code? Are they trying to cut costs with the infrastructure?
- Is this finally the rise of the "multi-agentic os/platform" we've all been so eagerly awaiting?
- One of the most satisfying (and sad that it’s needed) GH CLI extensions I’ve (publicly) vibe coded has been https://github.com/Houstonwp/gh-down
Although I think I still ironically end up finding out about the outages on HN first.
- Anyone have a nice way of mirroring between two forges such as GitHub and GitLab? I know git can push to multiple remotes but that only solves the problem for me, I still have to mirror commits from others. I want to keep repo configs in sync too.
- Would it reduce their load if every AI instance both local and centralized had their own local git repo (and/or Gerrit instance) and then only committed for a sub-set of specific conditions were met?
- https://forgeperf.org/
A useful website to show why GitHub is feeling the burn so much with higher usage!
- ;)
https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/ (from an above HN item)
- I think there should be another page 'GitHub is NOT down'. Needless to say, for all the other times it's Down.
by samuelknight
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- I couldn't merge earlier but navigation around my project worked. Maybe if I generate even more PRs some will get through!
- How is Microsoft not able to scale? Is it an architecture limitation? That’s affecting trust big time…
by SpaceNoodled
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- How is this news? There's as low as a one-in-six chance it's down these days.
by mghackerlady
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- It'd be more useful to inform us when it is working at this point
by munificent
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- I haven't seen Friendster-level stability like this in a long time.
- they are testing the limits of ruby on rails.
"Ultimately, if more companies treated the framework as an extension of the application, it would result in higher resilience and stability. Investment in Rails ensures your foundation will not crumble under the weight of your application. Treating it as an unimportant part of your application is a mistake and many, many leaders make this mistake."
https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/bu...
- so funny that I was migrating my agent workflow off of github issues today and while I was trying to run a regression test against a run of the old github workflow it gave timeouts related to issues being down, been getting nothing but trouble the last few weeks from having github manage the project/issues
- Honestly, if GH keeps getting worse I may need to migrate away to Forgejo or something. The problem is GHA... Does anyone know of a service that is better and doesn't charge me an arm and a leg for runners (particularly MacOS ones)? I've been wanting to shift away from GHA for ages (because I hate it) but I don't know of any alternatives that are quite like it (or the costs involved).
- Wow, GitHub are no longer serious people. Unbelievable.
by claudiusa
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- worked for me pushing some commits about 20 minutes ago.
- Soon on your favorite prediction markets.
by throwaway87281
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- What's with Github Enterprise? At the workplace it's constantly broken as well.
by sergiotapia
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- If you have clowns bombarding the backend with agentic volume that is 200x the average, start charging them for usage.
This is not sustainable and hurts actual customers.
by SoftTalker
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- It's almost as if some people don't understand that it's possible to develop software without using github.
The people who warned about building dependencies on third party services are enjoying some schadenfreude now.
Ironic that a source code control system that was designed to be distributed is now presenting problems due to the failure of centralized services.
- re there polymarket bets on if gitub will be up or down today yet?
by testemailfordg2
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- Probably the solution is not using the centralized Github for all work related to agentic coding but rather a distributed/local github repository from get go. This way only what hits the centralized github and becomes public, is something vetted and signed off by the human in the loop, hopefully reducing the AI slop and increasing the quality of commits.
- Github vs cloudflare
by pickleballcourt
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- Is this trending in relation to Ghostty moving away from github?
- oh no, anyway...
by josefritzishere
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- Microslop happens.
- CircleCI seems to not have the same problem: https://status.circleci.com/
- Selfhosted gitlab alpha versus the cloud Github beta
by Imustaskforhelp
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- The amount of damage Github has done to its brand is something so phenomenal that I think it might be studied in future case studies. Skype and Github were two microsoft products which everyone used until they degraded it. Windows itself can be included in it too now.
- I'm moving everything to self hosted GitLab CE now. Will just use GitHub as a backup. This is so ridiculous at this point.
by tailscaler2026
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- > Co-authored by Co-pilot
by fishgoesblub
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- This is genuinely pathetic. I wish I could do my job this poorly and still be employed.
- really need competitor for gh rn
by saltyoldman
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- Is Git decentralized?
by SilverElfin
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- If this was a business running on its own, without Microsoft’s capital and anti competitive practices, they would have been out of business by now.
- Here we go again...
by shevy-java
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- Many of us predicted this.
Microslop, 'xcuse me, Microsoft is killing off GitHub. Not necessarily by design or on purpose, but by slop-neglect effect. AI is eating the corporate brain that Microsoft used to have (well, a long time ago).
by throwaway613746
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- The goals for code-versioning as they existed decades back, might be sliding into irrelevance now. Code is no longer a direct work artifact from humans, as it used to be. Back in the day, people wanted to persist their code and it's changes, because code was hard to write and test. People didn't use a versioning system for their compiled binaries though, because it was a machine output and can be created from source code. But there was no higher level "source" for generating the code itself. Now things have changed. We need to check what exactly is the human artifact that requires treasuring, persisting and versioning.
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