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  • PSA: You can still create PRs with the gh cli tool.
    by bratsche
  • It's utterly unreliable. I laughed when I read the title. We moved our company to self hosted Forgejo a while ago and literally the day after, there was a major disruption on GitHub. Their service also isn't that great even when it works. We decided to move because they abrupt ly disabled all our LFS access without any prior warning causing a private outage for our developers. Fun!
    by poly2it
  • The incident is already superseded.. Or maybe they fixed it by shutting down all web gateways..
    by floppydive
  • No one else is going to basically give everyone free git hosting with such generosity as Microsoft.

    I think LMMs have made it impossible for unlimited free repos for everyone to work.

    by 999900000999
  • If you think Microsoft is generous, you are extremely naive. LLMs and their produced content are less interesting to MS because they don't present original human data for training.
    by bloqs
  • Generosity lol. They get a ton out of GitHub, not the least being all that sweet sweet code to train their AIs on.
    by loloquwowndueo
  • “You need to use cloud services because the uptime can’t be matched if you run it yourself”

    I mean it’s true, but not in a good way.

    by hdgvhicv
  • Also i mean... Putting your software forge with cicd on publicly accessible infra isn't the wisest security posture.
    by NewJazz
  • This is a platform in chronic decline.

    After a week ago [0] a week before that [1] and again a few days before that [2] with it is no wonder that each time GitHub falls over, confidence in the platform is rapidly going away.

    Sounds like it is once again a great time to self host, as predicted 6 years ago. [3]

    [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199446

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040940

    [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973653

    [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

    by rvz
  • Decline? AI coding agents drove commits up 14× in a year. Pull requests opened by AI coding agents surged from roughly 4 million in September 2025 to more than 17 million in March 2026 — a 325% increase in six months. [1]

    [1] https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318481/20260616/githubs-a...

    by tomatohs
  • So much software engineering going on
    by 2OEH8eoCRo0
  • 10x more we could say
    by Laurel1234
  • 2-3 9's of availability on most services shown on their status page (and these are always generous). For a platform that wants to be the industry standard CI/CD platform, there is no way you can justify that.
    by JohnMakin