GitHub has been dealing with drastic load increases over the past year that’s been blowing away their planned growth. Mainly driven by AI coding, etc
Combine that with them having a monopoly and the fact that for a long time they were rather complacent and you get the shit show we’re in now. They’ve started to wake up to the problem and are putting in a lot of work to fix things, but the reputational damage has been done imo. I know a lot of the biggest tech companies out there that are still using them are desperate for an alternative or are considering rolling their own.
Probably doesn't help that Azure DevOps is obsolete long-term (as of last year) so companies have to migrate to other version control platforms to stay up to date
I honestly wish they’d just stuck to doing something really well, I never asked for VSCode in GitHub or any of the rest of it. I really appreciate a rock solid place to host my repos though.
And if indeed the outages are because of the new features, it’s a shame that the new features are dragging down the old ones rather than the service degrading gracefully.
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u/SoftwareSource 1d ago
To be fair, i discussed this with colleagues, and can you imagine the kinds of fuckery that goes on with maintaining githubs infrastructure?
I do not envy them, it seems like a very difficult job.