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Comment by zeroq | Hacker News Reader

It's been a downward spiral since covid.

Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since.

Not sure covid was the sole driving force. A combination of MS taking over and deciding to move it to Azure, a massive increase in traffic due to ai usage (not that this should be an excuse for a platform that should be scaleable), and Github going all in on AI usage to write its own code.

They're making it very easy for a viable alternative to pop up and take their lunch - it just wont be Gitlab.

While it annoys me how things have gone downhill, I think you missing one key detail with regards to competition. It's only "very easy" if you feel like throwing enough money at CI compute to power the majority of the open source ecosystems needs. That would be the bare minimum in order to even have a shot of achieving similar levels of network effects as Github.

I don't have data for it, but I have been a Github user since 2012 and have found it to be down often for pretty much that entire time. I always figured it's cultural to a degree–new features always seem pretty buggy/underbaked, and often continue to long term but remain unloved and incomplete.

I has never been so bad as in the couple last years. And it's getting worse.

I never had to wonder if Steam is going to be working today, so I could play my game after work, but it's been an issue with GitHub since covid. At least for me.

Fortunately, due the nature of the service, I can sit out most downtimes. Most of the time at least.

Enterprise here and it's down all the time. Right now and it was down 4 days ago as well.

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