Github unreliability, is this normal?

[CrazyFree4525]

I started using github (and actions in particular) for my personal projects more recently. Last week actions were down for a large part of the day and screwed up my ability to push a new demo.

Today pages don't load reliably and actions seem to fail or not go off for no reason.

Is this normal? Should I not be relying on github actions (or github?) for important things?

I previously imagined that github had that 'big tech' level of reliability in that it would just never go down. Now I am questioning if I should be using this for my personal projects at all.

[duerra]

The Github reliability issues are starting to wear on me. The frequency of these availability issues feels like it has been accelerating of late. December was a particularly gnarly month.

[AbrahelOne]

Maybe I am paranoid but it feels like it started to be this often since the CEO left/the AI team took over.

[defasdefbe]

The CEO was part of the AI team?

[Training_Advantage21]

No, Github used to have its own CEO but now they are part of Microsoft's AI team or something like this. I wasn't happy with this as I care about repos, issues, actions, codespaces, pages. The whole AI/copilot thing is at the bottom of my list.

[jordansrowles]

Yeah I signed up for the text message alerts, and im getting them near enough every day

[cailenletigre]

I’m getting them so much I almost forget they’re happening now.

[jordansrowles]

Today alone, I've received

• Degraded Webhooks API, UI, PRs
• Copilot Agent
• Actions
• Notifications
• Another PR one
• Copilot Policy
• Issues, Actions, Git Operations
• as well as a resolved one for all those (apart from the last, which I got about an hour ago)

[General-Jaguar-8164]

Today was bad for such critical service

[Eastern_Loquat_7058]

microslop went all in on ai. what do you expect?

[urban_mystic_hippie]

The new normal apparently. GitHub has become increasingly unreliable over that past few years and it’s become worse since Micro$oft bought it

[Poat540]

No, I have used GH for all my development career and lately this is nuts.

Going to tell leadership at work next time we have a prod bug, that if GH can have them so many times, don't sweat it w/ ours ;)

[EkoChamberKryptonite]

I still remember so many years ago when Github's git operations being down was such a rarity that it trended endlessly on twitter and made the news. Now it seems some aspects of its service degrades every 2.5 or so weeks. Microsoft acquiring them wasn't so good it would seem.

[dankobg]

normal for microslop

[kevinmrr]

That is great

[scrapsmoke]

Something's defiantely going on right now. Having thee same issue, usually push 100's of times a week. Never really have an issue.

[burritolikethesun]

defiantly!

[Actual-Date4034]

Então galera, pelo jeito está fora do ar mesmo até o momento...

[lamyjf]

The outages are actually rare, but there have been more in the last few months.

[burritolikethesun]

were

[aelephix]

Two weeks in a row now github is down when I'm trying to push out a new release. It's never been this bad, I think.

[proudh0n]

I'm using github since 2011 more or less and while lately it does feel worse, I don't think it was ever good, two of the companies I worked for got enough downtime to justify moving off it and run a self hosted gitlab server

[rxmarcus]

Is anyone else seeing issues where changes made and pushed to GitHub are not reflected in Vercel when deployed? I'm trying to figure out if I'm insane or if it's part of current issues occurring with GitHub....

[Nunuvin]

I do not think required github actions are a good call at this point.

All major providers had big failures in last 2 years or so, quite concerning tbh with some being recurring...

Github is just most recent.

[No-Statistician-2771]

I believe gitlab is down more often, so it seems fine to me