GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

3 days ago by dhruv3006 to c/technology

GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by ...
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darkearth 51 points 3 days ago

long past time. what's taking people so long

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wakko 16 points 3 days ago

what’s taking people so long

besides the fact that there's no decent alternative for workloads of a certain size/scale?

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floquant 5 points 2 days ago

What is missing from GitLab?

A platform that is down for almost a whole day every month does not seem like a decent alternative for those workloads

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wakko -5 points 2 days ago

If you have to ask the question, you haven't made a serious comparison of the two.

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floquant 6 points 2 days ago

No, I have just migrated my company to self-hosted GL and found a better experience with literally no downsides.

I think it is a fair question, because I really don't see what could be the deal-breaker. Is it copilot, or the terrible GitHub actions?

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wakko -13 points 2 days ago

You don't see the deal breaker because your requirements are clearly low enough that open-core software works for your use case. Your experience is not universal. Your inexperience is leading you to believe you're more knowledgeable than you really are. I don't need to explain myself to someone that engages in bad faith arguments.

Let me guess, you chose Gitlab because you're a DHH fanboy?

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AHemlocksLie 9 points 2 days ago

You're spending more effort to be a smug prick than it would take to just rattle off an example or three. Sounds more to me like you don't know what the fuck you're talking about and just want to publicly stroke your... Ego.

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wakko -9 points 2 days ago

"Sounds to me like..."

Nobody asked you? Why do we care what you think?

Sounds to me like you're insecure and looking for a free handout instead of being able to come up with a coherent reason for why you're owed something you've not earned.

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AHemlocksLie 4 points 2 days ago

Nobody asked you? Why do we care what you think?

Nobody asked you in particular, either, but here we are like 3-4 replies deep anyway. Even if we had, you've refused to answer so you can act like a smug cunt instead, so you'd apparently be useless at it anyway.

Sounds to me like you're insecure and looking for a free handout instead of being able to come up with a coherent reason for why you're owed something you've not earned.

My guy, then just shut the fuck up. You don't have to use it as an opportunity to grandstand and fellate yourself for being so smart to get it. You could just say nothing if you don't want to actually contribute. Honestly, you've been worse than useless here.

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wakko 0 points 14 hours ago

You're spending an awful lot of time telling me I don't get to reply to comments off my own thread. Maybe stop and realize that my original comment didn't need any replies and y'all are the ones wasting your time and energy arguing downthread instead of getting smart enough to go start your own thread if you want to express yourself.

It's 2026, not 1996. Its time to grow up and learn how threaded conversations work. They aren't new. It's awful weird that you're struggling so much with the concept.

But sure. Keep screeching "STFU" like a child. I'm sure that somehow, somewhere, someone on the internet might actually listen to you. But that someone is not me. I don't listen to the demands of children.

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