Is it just me, or is GitHub getting slower?

3 points by Florin_Andrei 6y ago ↗ HN

Recently started using GitHub almost daily again, after maybe one year of time-off. Seems slower and more buggy, I guess?

The web UI sometimes just sits there doing nothing. "git push" occasionally fails to connect. There's little glitches every day. I don't remember seeing this stuff before. Or not this often - I mean, daily glitches, seriously?

Any connection with them having been acquired by Microsoft a while ago, or is it just observer's bias? There's the reflex to blame Microsoft for the woes of anything they touch, but perhaps I'm reading too much into it.

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ktpsns 6y ago ↗

Sometimes I also have the feeling GitHub is slow. The web interface reactivity is also usually better in Chrome then Firefox.

Well, after all that tells us that GitHub doesn't do anything magic. If you bother, checkout other services, such as Gitlab. If you can afford, host your own Git server (for instance Gitlab CE). It requires basically no administration (I have done it for ~100 users for 3yrs).