Incident number 6 for the month of August, notably on August 6th. This pattern does not bode well.

Very frustrating, nothing more I can add at this point.

So, it's a normal Thursday?

The speed at which GitHub is tanking their reputation is fascinating

Soon we can start posting "GitHub {x} is up!" instead, that's becoming more news-worthy lol. I know they like to blame AI/scaling, but really they are owned by one of the main hyperscalers, so I find that excuse kind of weak..

Did Microsoft fire all the people working on the GitHub features people actually use?

I am having their issues, also... Anyway this guys are great!

Ah. So that's why.

man.. again?

Can't wait for the Graphite/Cursor alternative (Origin) to become available. Actions being down for an hour in the middle of the US East workday is crazy. It's super frustrating to be an enterprise customer of Github, seems like we don't get any dedicated resources or additional stability. At this point our only option is self-host github enterprise or move away.

Was? Still is

any 9s left?

Someone needs to work on improving the way Actions deals with resource exhaustion like this. Today it exploded all the CI jobs with "failed" and an inscrutable message about "The job was not acquired by Runner of type hosted even after multiple attempts" then "Internal server error". It should say "Timed out due to no runner available, our apologies, try again later, or pay $$$ here to get priority for runners".

I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.

Github Actions are rapidly becoming an argument against dogfooding into your critical path.

Do we need to say this again? GitHub appears that they are never going to improve. Just look at how GitHub spark has deprecated, now we have this.

After 6 years of this nonsense of "centralizing everything on GitHub", it is not a good idea at all.

You might as well self host like I said before [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406

This has been preventing me from merging a PR for over an hour. I'm really tired of the constant outages GitHub has

Are there any other CI providers that offer free cloud-hosted Windows runners?

Or has Microsoft made sure (through Windows licensing terms and pricing) that it's not possible to compete with their own CI offering?

How did they get Github Pages into “degraded performance”? Aren’t those just CDN stored static pages?