[short_sells_poo]

Slight tangent: the post says that github is crumbling. Can someone get me up to date on what's going on please? Admittedly I'm not following tech drama particularly closely, but I thought I'd have heard if a major thing like github was going down the chute.

[AnEro]

So there has been increasing issues form the github side for the past year and I believe they also just lost alot of customer/user data on top of several critical vulnribilities and bugs in base service and in actions.

My POV: Github actions are inconsistent in billing, security and require alot of attention to do right. Github has worse uptime than alot of free online videogame services, when most enterprise and business world leans on it for developers. Leaving a lot of users with terrible experience the past year having to constantly examine github firefighting for issues around availability, security, and billing instead of doing work that makes the company/people money.

Example walk through of securing github actions for ci/cd and managing SBOM python dependancy/supply chains (giant complexity) [1], Github has remote code execution[2], Uptime by 3rd party tracker shows 86% past 90 days. (First quarter in 2 years where they didn't have atleast one month above 90% uptime) [3]

[1] https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral [2] https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-38... [3] https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

[gempir]

A simple search holds the answers https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

[radicalriddler]

It’s had horrific uptime, to the point of hitting 88.x uptime percentage.

This is likely on the back of Mitchell Hashimoto (Hashicorp founder) announcing he’s moving off of Github as well.

And really just years of Github feeling inconsistent, bad UX, no good solutions for open source developers in terms of AI spam etc.

[ramon156]

88% uptime, search index incident, CVE's to name a few.

Check a local repo and go to pr's, there's a big banner telling you there's an ongoing ncident

[embedding-shape]

> but I thought I'd have heard if a major thing like github was going down the chute.

Wow, it was a really long time ago it started going down the lane of the chute, can't believe someone missed it, made big news at the time back in 2018! This was the turning point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527

[mbStavola]

https://www.githubstatus.com/

In particular:

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

[MYEUHD]

Github has frequent downtime: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

[dreamcompiler]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921