Some of my jobs are completing, some are failing. Seems to be random. Kind of wish they would just fail outright, instead of running for 10 minutes and then failing.
Seems like outages are increasingly more frequent nowadays. Obviously, this is not the best state of affairs, and developers should not be limited by services. In the meantime I've been experimenting with building third spaces for people to chill while they wait for the services they are dependent on to go back up.
The first one I've built is a little ASCII hangout for Claude @ https://clawdpenguin.com but threads like this make me want to build it for Github too.
I am this > < close to just running Gogs or Forgejo on some Hetzner boxes, quit my job, charge people for access. Why aren't there like 10 startups doing this yet? Please? I want to give you my money. Just give me a git host that doesn't suck. (All the current ones suck)
Codeberg and Sourcehut are doing it for free, for open source. Corporate probably won't ever move off Github, because they need the prestige of using Github - the actual service quality is completely irrelevant. This is an aspect of the enshittocene epoch - I repeat, quality is irrelevant to corporates.
I've been on a somewhat binge to move a bunch of stuff to self-hosting at home. Yesterday I finally completed my self-hosted Forgejo instance at home, together with Linux, Windows (via VM) and macOS (via Mac Mini) runners/workers for CI/CD, so everything finally lives in-house (literally), instead of all source code + Actions being on GitHub but the infrastructure actually living locally.
This is probably the first time I felt vindicated with my self-hosting move literally the day after I finished the migration, very pleasant feeling. Usually it takes a month or two before I get here.
And once you start self-hosting, you realise how slow the 'modern' web actually is.
I host forgejo on a single NUC with a bunch of other stuff in Proxmox, the page loads in 6ms!
Immich is not quite as fast but still a ton faster than Google photos.
I've been running my own private forgejo instance for a while now. I host all my own private side projects and stuff there. Its a much more pleasant experience than github, if only because it has higher than 90% uptime. The UI is mostly identical otherwise.
The number of consistent issues i've had with anything github-related lately is crazy. Even just browsing their site is difficult sometimes with slow loads that often just hang entirely.
Are you me? Somebody was talking about gitea on here yesterday and I also ended up self-hosting and moving all of my private projects to Ferjero yesterday after a bit of research. I can't bring myself to move public projects due to job prospects + GitHub network effect. Otherwise I'm role playing as a system admin now with 20 local services for various things I need. I think the most important thing is to have regular backups as you're now in charge of keeping your data from getting lost.
My GitLab server at home is so nice. My last job ran a self-hosted GitLab on AWS with CI runners on-prem, which was a delight to work with.
New job runs on GitHub. I frequently have to stop work and wait for GitHub to recover before I can checkout some dependency or push a commit. It's outrageous.
what are the good alternatives available for github i find some alternative but as long as widely people use github i cant use other service right like i cant share my alternative to other developer and force him to use this for me. so i feel like i locked in even i want to move i can't
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ says they are down to 88.15% uptime. Even when you consider uptime of individual components, their best is 99.78%, so two nines.
Just cancelled my GitHub Copilot Pro+ year subscription. Removal of Opus 4.6 stung, but the repeated continued downtime makes it unusable for me. Very disappointed.
No fuss instant refund of my unused subscription (£160) appreciated.
I definitely have better uptime hosting my own gitea instance. It's faster too. It's basically a knock off GitHub. Plus with privacy concerns, I'm just happier overall. Easy setup, all I did was deploy the helm chart.
I wondered. We'd seen for most of today that Actions were slow to trigger, I had at least one that was just missed, it felt like something was definitely off but the status was green all day until this.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 63.6 ms ] threadThe first one I've built is a little ASCII hangout for Claude @ https://clawdpenguin.com but threads like this make me want to build it for Github too.
This is probably the first time I felt vindicated with my self-hosting move literally the day after I finished the migration, very pleasant feeling. Usually it takes a month or two before I get here.
I host forgejo on a single NUC with a bunch of other stuff in Proxmox, the page loads in 6ms! Immich is not quite as fast but still a ton faster than Google photos.
The number of consistent issues i've had with anything github-related lately is crazy. Even just browsing their site is difficult sometimes with slow loads that often just hang entirely.
New job runs on GitHub. I frequently have to stop work and wait for GitHub to recover before I can checkout some dependency or push a commit. It's outrageous.
https://sourcehut.org/
I think it is time that Microsoft lets go of GitHub. They are handling it too poorly.
Good riddance I hope it completely destroys them.
https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
“There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.”
Source: GitHub COO on April 3, 2026. https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
No fuss instant refund of my unused subscription (£160) appreciated.