[samcrawford]

Independent of whether it's been down more frequently since the acquisition, I find Github's status page reporting to be lacking. It's also quite generous with definitions of outages and downtime.

For example, on June 22nd they had an issue whereby half of their nameservers were responding with an empty answer for queries for github.com. A very nice explanation is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23605409. So for roughly half of users (including myself) this would have manifested itself as a complete outage. It also lasted for a good couple of hours. Yet on their status page it's listed as a 46 minute degradation only.

So relying on their status page reporting to draw conclusions about availability (as Statusgator seems to) will mean that an overly optimistic picture of availability is presented.