GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

opwizardx•3 minutes ago

How did they get Github Pages into “degraded performance”? Aren’t those just CDN stored static pages?

ptx•4 minutes ago

Are there any other CI providers that offer free cloud-hosted Windows runners?

Or has Microsoft made sure (through Windows licensing terms and pricing) that it's not possible to compete with their own CI offering?

arandomhuman•26 minutes ago

I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.

vaneri2007•6 minutes ago

Maybe switching to https://github.com/gitlabhq :)

x3n0ph3n3•6 minutes ago

Microsoft is not a serious company anymore.

peterldowns•43 minutes ago

Can't wait for the Graphite/Cursor alternative (Origin) to become available. Actions being down for an hour in the middle of the US East workday is crazy. It's super frustrating to be an enterprise customer of Github, seems like we don't get any dedicated resources or additional stability. At this point our only option is self-host github enterprise or move away.

Insanity•about 1 hour ago

Soon we can start posting "GitHub {x} is up!" instead, that's becoming more news-worthy lol. I know they like to blame AI/scaling, but really they are owned by one of the main hyperscalers, so I find that excuse kind of weak..

clickety_clack•about 1 hour ago

Maybe they bought an “it has been 1 day since our last incident” board instead of one with numbers you can change, so to save money on buying a new one they just keep having incidents.

KyleTheDev•about 1 hour ago

Incident number 6 for the month of August, notably on August 6th. This pattern does not bode well.

paularmstrong•about 1 hour ago

Four of them were regarding AI/Copilot. So that's really just one long running incident and will probably continue to be 50/50 chance of being down.

presbyterian•about 1 hour ago

The speed at which GitHub is tanking their reputation is fascinating

Arubis•17 minutes ago

Github Actions are rapidly becoming an argument against dogfooding into your critical path.

classictraffic•9 minutes ago

This has been preventing me from merging a PR for over an hour. I'm really tired of the constant outages GitHub has

newtonianrules•about 1 hour ago

Did Microsoft fire all the people working on the GitHub features people actually use?

Topfi•about 1 hour ago

I mean, Github doesn't have its own CEO anymore, so arguably.

denysvitali•41 minutes ago

Was? Still is

h2aichat•about 1 hour ago

I am having their issues, also... Anyway this guys are great!

dlcarrier•about 1 hour ago

So, it's a normal Thursday?

Topfi•about 1 hour ago

Very frustrating, nothing more I can add at this point.

dboreham•27 minutes ago

Someone needs to work on improving the way Actions deals with resource exhaustion like this. Today it exploded all the CI jobs with "failed" and an inscrutable message about "The job was not acquired by Runner of type hosted even after multiple attempts" then "Internal server error". It should say "Timed out due to no runner available, our apologies, try again later, or pay $$$ here to get priority for runners".

jubilanti•25 minutes ago

But you can't even pay more $$$ to get priority! This isn't even a good grift, it's just incompetence.

whateveracct•36 minutes ago

any 9s left?

theamk•29 minutes ago

there is one 9 of uptime, but the dashboard hasn't been updated yet: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Once this goes in, I'd expect to see 89%, which is zero nines. (I'd like to say, "a new low!", but sadly we've had this before)

ch4s3•28 minutes ago

They're running 9 8s of uptime.

pbkompasz•9 minutes ago

nein nein nein

homeonthemtn•about 1 hour ago

Ah. So that's why.

dinny•about 1 hour ago

man.. again?

rvz•16 minutes ago

Do we need to say this again? GitHub appears that they are never going to improve. Just look at how GitHub spark has deprecated, now we have this.

After 6 years of this nonsense of "centralizing everything on GitHub", it is not a good idea at all.

You might as well self host like I said before [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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