I am surprised at how much github is willing to let themselves go for being a product that can nowadays be replaced by someone over the weekend. This is the second major outage within like 2 weeks.
Funny, because just yesterday I was downvoted for pointing out (among other things) GitHub's less than stellar reliability these past few years.
When are the AI vibe coders going to create a GitHub replacement? With 1000x AI productivity a lean startup should easily outcompete the incumbents, no?
Enterprise customers, remember to email your sales rep and ask for them to report on their contracted uptime with you that you are allowed to do as per contract.
They wont do this unless you ask hoping you don't notice the outages.
It creates lots of internal pain - they have no automation internally for reporting on this.
This is the only way anything will ever change. GitHub is _easily_ the most unreliable SaaS product. There's not a week whereby we aren't affected by an outage. Their reputation is mud.
I've always used Bitbucket as it allows private repositories, so Github was never something I wanted to use. But it is one of the most important websites in the world for tech people and should be run better than this, especially being now owned by the largest tech company in the world. On the other hand, it just shows that centralisation, or over-reliance on one thing or service, is always the worst idea. But people are very lazy and so we keep running in these circles ad infinitum.
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I wonder if self hosting is more reliable. How much does a private and firewalled git* instance need updates?
When are the AI vibe coders going to create a GitHub replacement? With 1000x AI productivity a lean startup should easily outcompete the incumbents, no?
This is the only way anything will ever change. GitHub is _easily_ the most unreliable SaaS product. There's not a week whereby we aren't affected by an outage. Their reputation is mud.