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Comment by junon | Hacker News Reader

Been on GitHub for a long time. It feels like they're more often. It used to be yearly if at all that GitHub was noticably impacted. Now it's monthly, and recently, seemingly weekly.

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Definitely not how I remember. First, I remember seeing unicorn page multiple times a day some weeks. There were also time when webhook delivery didn't work, so circle ci users couldn't kick off any builds.

What change is how many services GitHub can be having issues.

I suspect that the Azure migration is influencing this one. Just a bunch of legacy stuff being moved around along with Azure not really being the most reliable on top... I can't imagine it's easy.

there has been 5 between actions and push pull issues just this month. it is more often

In the early days of GitHub (like before 2010) outages were extremely common.

Not from my recollection. Not like this. BitBucket on the other hand had a several day outage at one point. That one I do recall.

I remember periods of time when GitHub was down every few weeks, my impression is that it's become more stable over the years.

I agree, for what that's worth.

However, this is an unexpected bell curve. I wonder if GitHub is seeing more frequent adversarial action lately. Alternatively, perhaps there is a premature reliance on new technology at play.

I pulled my project off github and onto codeberg a couple months ago but this outage still screws me over because I have a Cargo.toml w/ git dependency into github.

I was trying to do a 1.0 release today. Codeberg went down for "10 minutes maintenance" multiple times while I was running my CI actions.

And then github went down.

Cursed.

I think it was generally news when there were upages and the site was up. Similar with twitter for that matter.

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