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by georgyo 56 days ago
These are not the worst graphs in the world... Sure the bottom left axis is not labeled, but it still conveys the point correctly. The growth between 2023->2024->2025->2026 is growing quickly. And that in the end/beginning of 2026 they say more growth than the three years before, combined!

You don't need to know the bottom left axis number. We do have to assume the graph is linear, and not some kind of negative exponent log graph. But given the rest of the content, I think that is safe to assume.

Any company that experiences significantly more growth than they were planning for will have capacity issues.

The priorities are most inline with that. The are way beyond the point that they can just add more hardware. They need to make the backend more efficient, and all the stated goals are about helping there.
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johndough 56 days ago
> You don't need to know the bottom left axis number.

We very much do. The graph suggests an insane growth in PRs from almost zero to 90M. Now compare this misleading graph with this much clearer one, which shows that the growth over the last three years has been less than 80%: https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/octoverse-202...

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SkiFire13 56 days ago
That link shows the number of PRs created to be less than 10M though.
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johndough 56 days ago
Yes, to be honest, that graph could use some improvements as well. I should probably just link to the blog post with actual numbers: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
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heisenbit 55 days ago
PRs were the culmination of human work. Now PRs are generated by machines to trigger human work. So the growth graph is not really absurd.
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maccard 56 days ago
> These are not the worst graphs in the world... Sure the bottom left axis is not labeled, but it still conveys the point correctly.

No, they're completely useless. Using the "New repos per month" as an example, if the bottom left is 1m, then that's a 20x increase in 2 years which is a lot. If the bottom left is 19m, it's a 5% increase in 2 years which is nothing.

The massive surge on their labelled X axis starts in 2026, and these issues have been going on for a lot longer than that. GHA has been borderline unusable for a year at this point, if not longer.

> But given the rest of the content, I think that is safe to assume.

The rest of the content is "we're working on it", and "here's two outages in the last 14 days, one of which caused actual data loss"

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