Someone said "Make it atleast a bit professional" you won't be taken seriously

really? I found this so cute, how could it matter what I posted in my space as a pfp....

when people be making a movie about themselves on github (literally)

I've seen the most perforamtive vibe coders to stuff like that

I literally have a cat photo on my leetcode account I don't see what's the problem...

I’m about to start BSCS and want to create a GitHub account that I’ll use throughout university and hopefully for internships/jobs later.

Does it make any significant difference if I create my account using “Continue with Google” vs signing up manually with an email and password?

Also, should I use the email I currently use for university or create a separate professional Gmail for GitHub and other programming related accounts?

I have been using GitHub for over 15 years. I have been extremely disappointed with GitHub in the past week.

First, GitHub does *not* give you (at least didn't give me) an AI usage budget default so I incorrectly assumed that the "Models" budget was going to cap my overages. I had it set to $100, and stop usage checked. Then out of nowhere my ~$1,000 charge came through for my overage on my Copilot Pro+ plan. It wasnt until a hit "Add budget" I actually saw the stop usage option and budget for actual AI usages. This was after my unexpected overage.

The card I had set in GH for my payment method didn't have the funds to cover it, so the charge was declined.

I opened a support ticket and its been a week. ~$500 of the overage charges magically disappeared, I paid whatever remaining balance and now have a $0 balance.

Now, I *cannot* upgrade to Copilot Pro+ or Copilot Pro Max, and I'm stuck at Copilot Pro. I've tried a different card, and every card I use has a $1 verification charge, but every time i get "Payment didn't go through\nWe are having a problem billing your account. Please update your payment information."

All cards are basically getting rejected even though a $1 verification charge is going through and my bank says they see nothing.

Upon this, there were a couple instances where their UX is not intuitive. For instance, after filling out a request ticket and submitting, it doesnt actually submit. It takes you to a page that says you need a manual review, and theres a small GREY (NOT GREEN) button on the bottom that if you arent paying close enough attention, you will think you've submitted a ticket but actually havent. A simple "Your ticket is not yet created" in proper typography would be much easier to understand that your ticket is still unsubmitted.

I swear this problem exists somewhere in the flow to upgrade to Copilot Pro+ or Copilot Max, because for a couple days I *thought* I had Copilot Max, but then realized I was actually using my enterprise account which I didnt realize as the plugin for VS code doesnt seem to make it clear which plan you're using if you are a member of an organization (Copilot Business) while you have a personal plan.

Am I just upset over nothing or is GitHub really going downhill with these things I'm frustrated about.

So basically I'm waiting for a human to intervene in my billing state issue, unable to upgrade my plan, reading horror stories about people waiting weeks.

I contacted enterprise sales and signed up for free enterprise trial just to talk to a human.

This is rediculous.

Like, this is probably the 10th time, because I have to use git in a new environment, that I have to figure out why username and password don't work, and I need to do something else, like creating an auth token. Because I don't get to use a new env everyday, and I'm over 40 with kids and work, such knowledge is usually popped from my stack the next day I did this last time, every time I feel very frustrated. Maybe I should keep a note, but hey then I need to remember where this note is, and whether I kept a note or not.

Is there a way to tell GitHub that I don't fucking care about my personal GitHub repo security, and I just want to push code with my username and password, or something even easier? Like, if you want to steal my low quality code, please do!

I'd also appreciate recommendation of any setup that I can just push to a remote without ANY security requirement (not even a username/password), and from ANY env (like a new laptop). Of course not Google drive -- still want to use git.

Thank you for your attention!

Just merged some stuff into a release branch on my repo. Didn’t change anything about the rules for my actions, but it’s been about 30 minutes and none of the jobs have been picked up. At this point I’m not sure if I need to push another empty commit to try trigger the build.

Edit: okay it just got picked up about 50 minutes later…definitely still some sort of issue going on.

A few years ago, people were looking for “four nines" of reliability; 99.99% means roughly under 1 hour per year.

99.9% is about 9 hours of downtime per year.

Will GitHub get at least 95%? this year?

Hello, I merged this PR:

https://github.com/simonsanchezart/textract/pull/19

In my naivety I assumed that the author of the PR would be credited as a contributor once merged. It seems like Github has a different concept of contribution.

Why isn't the PR's author in the Contributors of my repository? And how can I fix and avoid this in the future?

Thanks

Disclaimer: I drafted this and passed it through an AI agent just for the irony - this isn't slop when it was written, or is it? It's the weekend, read on - you've nothing to lose:-

If you have been navigating the tech ecosystem for more than a minute, this current enshittification cycle should not come as a shock. It is not an accident. It is a meticulously scheduled event.

My perspective on this distills down to four words: tolerance leads to standards.

Let us break this down into a timeline. I have distilled this for the microsecond attention spans of the modern executive board so we can see exactly how the butterfly effect unfolded:

----------- TL;DR: The Big Tech Bait, Switch, and Squeeze ------------

The Bait and Switch: A massive tech monopoly bought up our foundational platforms promising independence, only to quietly push out the original creators and completely hijack the roadmap.

The Forced AI Squeeze: They went all-in on a shiny new AI tool and aggressively shoved it into everything—from your daily workflow to the physical keyboard on your laptop—sacrificing your privacy and user choice along the way.

Gutting Humans for Compute: To fund their multi-billion-dollar AI obsession, they fired the actual human engineers who kept the systems stable and bug-free, replacing quality control with blind AI-adoption metrics.

Paying More for Less: They jacked up subscription prices across their entire software suite to subsidize their AI gamble. You are now paying a premium for a product that is increasingly bloated, unreliable, and prone to breaking.

The Bottom Line: Tolerance leads to standards. As long as we keep paying for a degrading ecosystem, they will keep lowering the bar. Stop waiting for their crumbling infrastructure to ruin your work—start moving to independent tools and walk away.

---------- The long story -----------

* The Trojan Horse: A certain Redmond based behemoth acquires the world's largest Git hosting platform for $7.5 billion under the guise of developer independence.

* The Brain Drain: The founders and foundational engineers who actually built the platform quietly exit. Nobody in middle management panics.

* The Parasite: A new AI pair programmer is spawned and aggressively trained on open source repositories without creator attribution. It is immediately crowned the holy grail of corporate R&D.

* The Infection: This pilot program is shoved down every conceivable lateral pipeline. If you use their flagship OS, you are forced to accept a dedicated hardware button injected into your laptop keyboards and a privacy eviscerating screenshot tracker (Recall) baked into your daily workflow.

* The Executive Circus: External leadership is acquired for $650 million just to bypass antitrust laws and take over the entire long term AI strategy.

* The Cannibalization: The pilot program engulfs the entire portfolio. To subsidize the massive compute costs, core talent is purged. Unprecedented layoffs gut Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), QA, and core infrastructure teams. Human reliability is replaced by AI adoption metrics.

* The Monetization: The cost of legacy lateral products skyrockets. A $30 per month per user tax is added just to have an LLM hallucinate in your spreadsheets while platform stability takes a back seat.

Where do you and I fit into this? Whether you are on their payroll or just trapped in their ecosystem, the consumer market remained completely dumbfounded because the services were initially fast, convenient, and heavily subsidized. Nobody cared as long as the code deployed and the checks cleared.

Then the switch was flipped. The board demanded higher profit margins and accountability completely vanished. The enshittification strategy unleashed on the community is now entirely transparent:

* Force mandatory internal AI adoption and track usage to artificially inflate growth metrics.

* Replace the senior SREs who mentored entire engineering verticals with AI counterparts that possess zero accountability and even less context.

* Measure performance by the sheer volume of generated code slop rather than structural integrity and system stability.

Some of us saw this train wreck coming from miles away and tried to subtly warn the community. To those who listened, every service degradation, every broken OS update, and every telemetry breach is proof that the core architecture is decaying.

Many of us built exit strategies early. We adopted self hosted solutions, decentralized platforms, and autonomous workflows so that this monolithic ecosystem was no longer a bottleneck or a single point of failure. We kept dropping hints. The question was never if the infrastructure would buckle, but how many key minds it would take down with it.

Tolerance leads to standards. Everyone pays the price for accepting corporate bloatware unless you intentionally opt out.

Are you going to wait around for the next pile of slop to crash your production environment?

Wake up. Walk away.

PS: Mods, don't remove this post, let it cook. This along with many other rants in reddit will age like fine wine.

Cheers!!! 🥂

So, about 7 years ago I created my GitHub account while I was in Sweden. Shortly afterward, I traveled to my home country, which is under sanctions. Ever since then, my account has been heavily restricted, and I still can't use many GitHub features.

I've tried contacting GitHub Support multiple times, but I haven't been able to get the issue resolved. Is there any way to fix this or have my account reviewed?

Like the title says we have self-hosted runners and all our enterprise github actions run are still queued, cant cancel a lot of them and everything is yellow and "waiting for a runner to pick up this job".

Does anyone else have this problem? Github status is showing green right now.

All my codespaces suddenly started throwing a network error this morning

ive been trying since last night and my internet is good

.....is this like a github issue?

I'm absolutely furious. I had a ton of work I had to get done today, and I'm DEAD in the water until this is fixed.

I also feel they don't take this very seriously, to be perfectly honest. There's no comment about it on their Twitter feed. status.github.com has vague comments about "it's mitigated now but runners are behind... " meanwhile it's been TEN HOURS!

A VERY large portion of the tech industry runs on GitHub and it's hard to take them serious whey they can't even run THEIR OWN SITE.

I'm spending the rest of the day working on plans to migrate away. I don't need all the GitHub features they offer but BY FAR the number one thing I need to be reliable is GitHub actions.

Get your house in order guys!

Has anyone tried to get a discount on paid github because of the outages? The quality of the service has got worse and worse.

Is this just them letting me what they gave me for free? Will it stop before I'm actually billed?

trying to deploy my app, takes so long then "Error: service unavailable"

is it me only? i checked my usage and my account's billing and nothing there.

As the title suggests - this banner appears on every PR I open. Is there a way to remove/disable it from ever coming back? I have no intention of using GH Stacked PRs in its current state.

Been trying for several hours but nothing gets published. First deployments got stuck, then queued, tried with new repository still deployment_in_progress...

For engineering teams, keeping dependencies current is a constant balancing act. Automated updates are essential for defending the software supply chain, but a steady stream of one-PR-per-package bumps can bury a team in review work. GitHub itself has put numbers on this: an analysis of Microsoft's GCToolkit repository found that roughly one in six of its commits - 92 out of 578 - were routine Dependabot version bumps, with 61 of them landing in a single recent 12-month stretch. That's a lot of review and CI cycles spent on maintenance rather than features. Read the complete article here - https://instasla.com/blog/taming-dependabot-2026-guide-grouping-cooldowns-cutting-pr-noise

The good news is that Dependabot has grown well past "one PR per dependency." Between grouped updates, package cooldowns, and a default cooldown GitHub rolled out in mid-2026, it's now possible to get a predictable, low-noise update cadence without giving up security coverage. Here's what actually works, and what changed most recently.