GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g5gnt5l5hf56

by drcongo • 5 months ago

43 18 5 months ago

sidsud• 5 months ago

are they vibe coding their infra? lost count of how many incidents they've had in 2026 alone

nzeid• 5 months ago

Take this with a grain of salt - several Youtube exposés showed that the Actions code was utter shit before LLM coding was widely available. I'm assuming the tech debt finally sent the product off a cliff.

000ooo000• 5 months ago

Don't think any salt is required. During the Zig departure from GH, there were several GH Actions repo issues where it was highlighted just how bad some of the code is, and there was zero effort from GH to fix the problems or even accept past PRs from the community to fix these things.

We just got our mandate from on high that we're migrating to GH. You can imagine my joy.

rvz3• 5 months ago

They had more outages years ago and now it is cronic, and can confirm GitHub is completely unreliable. You should expect an outage almost every week at this point.

I'm convinced that their wreckless AI chatbots such as Tay.ai [0] with Copilot have been maintaining Github and have replaced the employees at GitHub.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

dogman123• 5 months ago

Someone from GitHub please give us the tea on what the hell is really going on over there.

tomwphillips2• 5 months ago

There were reports that they're migrating to Azure. Maybe it isn't going so well. I thought AI was supposed for have solved software engineering...

drcongo2• 5 months ago

I'm assuming they've completed the migration to Azure, so now GitHub is exactly as reliable as anything else on Azure.

rvz3• 5 months ago

There is no-one at GitHub that is going to help. Not even a CEO of GitHub that will help you.

enraged_camel• 5 months ago

This is pure absurdity at this point.

bracketfocus• 5 months ago

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Sitting at 91% platform uptime over the last 90 days, which is likely inflated due to the perfect uptime over December holidays. My guess is that is attributed to an internal code-freeze and generally reduced traffic.

None of their services have 99.9% availability.

yifanl• 5 months ago

Its a true marvel to barely have a single nine of uptime in 2026

drcongo2• 5 months ago

According to that page Actions is absolutely fine today. That seems even less reliable than the official GitHub status page.

Edit: I do appreciate the aggregate though.

theamk• 5 months ago

I think it's pretty slow to update.. it is nowhere near realtime. But I bet tomorrow this downtime will be reflected.

(example https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g9j4tmfqdd09 : ~1 hour Actions outage on Mar 5)

spongebobstoes• 5 months ago

it's enough, I'm moving to another platform

Shorn• 5 months ago

Come to BitBucket. Which is also down. Because they're in the process of failing to roll out an AI feature no one wants [1]. :/

[1] - I say this as a daily user of claude-code, paying $200USD/mth, of my own money, BTW.

rvz3• 5 months ago

Just watching Tay.ai and Zoe destroying GitHub, when there is no CEO of GitHub to go to.

Maybe self-hosting was a good idea after all in the long term. [0]

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

ramon156• 5 months ago

Imagine hosting a platform where - aside from major projects - it now has to host and build utter dogshit by the truckloads.

I'm not surprised, and I'm also not surprised by the outages that Anthropic has been having lately

GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again

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