Discussion

• @mappletons Maggie Appleton on x

  I don't work on reliability & scaling at GitHub, but the people who do aren't bad at their jobs. They're dealing with unprecedented scale from agents. It's easy to shit on GitHub from the outside if you're not in charge of 30X-ing capacity within a few months. Have some grace. [i…

• @cassidoo Cassidy on x

  The team is blessed and stressed y'all, please be nice in your tweets 😅 https://github.blog/...

• @theprimeagen @theprimeagen on x

  @mariorod1 Also, your doc talks about transparency. How is April 23rd's pr history altering issue not represented as a blip somewhere on your status page? Is it because the only true downtime was for the ~230 orgs affected? [image]

• @theprimeagen @theprimeagen on x

  @mariorod1 How can we trust you and what you say? I have no idea your tenure as CPO, but if you, the product officer, have a tenure longer than 6 months, I do not see how I can trust a word you say. Get a CEO, leave CoreAI, and maybe we can believe you

• @mariorod1 Mario Rodriguez on x

  @MrAhmadAwais I'm sorry it's been a rocky stretch at GitHub. We know we need to do better. Today we published an update on two recent incidents including the April 27 affecting pull requests, issues, projects, and search-backed experiences. https://github.blog/...

• @nicoloboschi Nicolò Boschi on x

  I know i've said bad things on Github stability but honestly I'm sure they are doing an amazing job to keep the infra as stable as possible with this kind of growth

• @auchenberg Kenneth Auchenberg on x

  GitHub experiencing exponential growth fueled by AI. “By February 2026, it was clear that we needed to design for a future that requires 30X today's scale.” [image]

• @mariorod1 Mario Rodriguez on x

  Being the foundation for millions of developers means our bar must be higher for availability, reliability, and security. I'm sorry it's been a rocky stretch at GitHub. We know we need to do better. Today we published an update on two recent incidents: one on April 23 involving

• @ryanvogel Vogel on x

  “github just lost another 9” [image]

• @hsvsphere @hsvsphere on x

  “github just lost another 8” [image]

• @glcst Glauber Costa on x

  Is Github fucking with us again? Can't seem to deploy stuff to our cloud, and Github says we don't have any PRs in this repo, open or closed. The PRs simply are not there. I don't actually know if our last changes are in or not! [image]

• @paularambles @paularambles on x

  github not showing any PRs, it's a PR crisis

• @jpschroeder Justin Schroeder on x

  Uhhhg. I totally agree...and also kinda don't want to kill Github. I'm quite worried if we throw out Github we'll end up with a balkanized hellscape of half-used Mastadonish fiefdoms with reddit mod vibes — or worse, bluesky.

• @theo @theo on x

  Github has been down for most of the day. I'm so tired of this. Never been so ready to move on. [image]

• @bruvimtired Ahmet on x

  we should all get together and finish building gitbruv. i promise it has better downtime than GitHub.

• @chshersh Dmitrii Kovanikov on x

  It's never been a better time to finally explore alternatives to git and different version control models like Pijul https://pijul.org/

• @peer_rich @peer_rich on x

  i honestly think if you let people (somehow) migrate repos including stars; that would be huge haha so much of not moving off of github is this stupid stars vanity metric

• @hsvsphere @hsvsphere on x

  GitHub has reached six sevens of uptime.

• @0x45o @0x45o on x

  we need a new github that isn't under Microsoft

• @mrahmadawais Ahmad Awais on x

  all fixed now hugops to GitHub!

• @mrahmadawais Ahmad Awais on x

  Woke up to all our GitHub PRs gone. ☠️ [image]

• Ian Cooper Ian Cooper on linkedin

  One point I keep hearing from folks backing up their belief that agentic coding isn't raising productivity is that they don't see the flood of apps and features it ought to create. …

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  One big problem with GitHub availability is that they have long outgrown their shonky little data centre in Virginia; they started migrating to Azure properly (not just putting individual services on Azure) last October and they hope to do it in 12 months which is rebuilding the …

• @marlam.in Martin on bluesky

  This reaffirms my fears, really.  Crazy increase in what GitHub politically calls “agentic development”.  I feel like that softens the reality a little and it just means a ton of vibe coding is happening.  Existing developers using AI does not cause that kind of increase. github.…

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  An update on GitHub availability

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  An update on GitHub availability

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  An update on GitHub availability