GitHub is sinking

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/

by herbertl • 2 months ago

263 167 2 months ago

oarsinsync• 2 months ago

I went to look at a repo on Github today. Clicked on the "xxx commits" link to see the commit history, and got told I've hit a secondary rate limit and need to wait.

I'm the only person on this network that would even look at Github, and my connection has a dedicated IP, no CGN.

blinded4• 2 months ago

The only real way to browse the site is to be logged in.

NewJazz• 2 months ago

They will gradually authwall everything they can. Just look at linkedin.

negura5• 2 months ago

sadly even that isn't an option for me. i spent half an hour yesterday trying to create a github account. i couldn't. my @proton.me got rejected. captchas take several painful minutes to complete. and even when I did manage to create an account (at least the page displayed a success mesage), it got disabled the instant I logged in for "TOS violation". i wish i was joking, but i literally cannot create a github account. a few years ago this would have seemed crazy. but here we are.

i'm stuck having to use google (another pain in the ass) for discovering codebases that contain specific snippets. but some repo contents (such as wikis) are not exposed at all to search engines

graemep• 2 months ago

Exactly the same here. I get that regularly.

noprocrasted2• 2 months ago

Yeah this is just typical techbro gaslighting. There is no rate-limit and hasn't been for years (it's just default deny), but they refuse to change the wording to reflect.

dcrazy• 2 months ago

Would you care to cite your source that GitHub does not apply rate limits to unauthenticated requests?

MYEUHD• 2 months ago

If you're on the desktop, refresh the page cache by using Ctrl + Shift + R

The page will load correctly

e40• 2 months ago

I regularly get 404s on legit links in slack that work for other people.

tbolt• 2 months ago

“GitLab - enterprise grade, meaning it’s bloated and confusing but it’ll impress your boss. This could be the choice if you need multiple meetings to make the choice.“

lol!

egwor• 2 months ago

We use gitlab at work, and I have to say that it is disappointing. The UI is so complicated to do the simplest things (e.g. to approve a MR you need to click a button that is actually a menu; the diffs are difficult to read; the 'To-do list' includes MRs that were already merged (how is that actionable?)) and it seems that they're struggling to turn around improvements quickly. The issue around the 'To-do list' including MRs that were already merged was raised years ago.

I also have to say that I'm surprised about the backlash against bitbucket. I find the UI incredibly simple and clear, as do all of the new joiners. With Script Runner you can do some pretty amazing things. It handles the huge repo's well too.

pelasaco3• 2 months ago

try to find the issue boards.. its a mess. And expensive.

IshKebab4• 2 months ago

to approve a MR you need to click a button that is actually a menu

It's not really any better on Github. Why do I have to click on "Files changed" to approve a PR? Overall I would say it is on par with Github. Worse in some ways; better in others.

Izkata• 2 months ago

e.g. to approve a MR you need to click a button that is actually a menu

I think you're referring to the "Your review" button in the upper-right that's not always there, but there's a plain "Approve" button on the Overview tab that doesn't open any menu and is always there.

breakingcups• 2 months ago

We semi-recently had Gitlab reps stop by at work to demo their new AI features (we're already running Gitlab Enterprise). It was a strong signal that we should get off the train before the next major version. None of the features seemed very thought out and to top it all off, there was an outage while they were demo-ing it, leading to broken pages and no LLM responses.

IshKebab4• 2 months ago

Funny but not really true. It's not really any more bloated or confusing than Github. It's not really "enterprise grade" software. If you want that look at Jira or anything Microsoft produces.

ndsipa_pomu2• 2 months ago

Made me chuckle. We use a self-hosted GitLab that I chose due to it having git and a container registry. The interface certainly can be confusing if you don't use the web UI often.

rvz2• 2 months ago

I have lost count of how many times something went down on GitHub ever since documenting it on this comment chain [0] and also predicting 6 years ago [1], that going all in and centralizing everything on to GitHub was really not a good idea if you need stability or to push a critical fix and your GitHub actions doesn't work.

Now, are you going to finally self host or should we continue to expect another outage on GitHub?

This time, there is no CEO of GitHub to help us. It is Copilot, and Tay.ai that are still struggling to maintain GitHub.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37395238

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

LorenDB• 2 months ago

Why do I keep seeing people blaming Tay.ai? That was a one-off Twitter chatbot that was shut down a decade ago.

CWwdcdk7h• 2 months ago

It is so confusing to me. I never worked for company that wouldn't self host its code repository and CI/CD. All the way back to SVN and when Jenkins was stil called Hudson. Most of the time there was also a local proxy for all 3rd party dependencies/artifacts. I understand why open source projects love GitHub but why are software companies depending on it?

summa_tech• 2 months ago

It sort of feels like no major open source repository can be possibly left well enough alone. I remember how SourceForge went down the drain, it's a real pity to see same happen with GH.

Side note: I read the URL as "dBus hell". We've all been there m8

arikrahman• 2 months ago

No m80 it's a nushell based on decibel units dBu Shell

johnfn2• 2 months ago

Everyone wants to pin this on the Microsoft acquisition or incompetence but it seems pretty clear to me from the material GitHub has posted that AI has 10xed the amount of code being committed to GH, which has downstream effects everywhere - CI, Actions, code ingestion, everywhere. The author pins it on weird things like MS Copilot, which kind of feels like he’s listing off things he doesn’t like rather than casual favors. This is ignoring the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

aliasxneo2• 2 months ago

Yeah, I had the exact same response after reading the post. I mean, I'm all for jumping on the Microsoft hate train, but not if it misses the elephant in the room. Let's say the _perfect_ GitHub replacement spawns tomorrow? What's preventing the same infrastructure challenges of millions of lines of AI-generated code destroying it?

I think centralized code hosting is pretty much going to get killed by AI. Just like it's doing to social media.

bdangubic• 2 months ago

of all the awful things AI is doing and will be doing to society, killing centralized code hosting and social media will be its shinniest moments, both deserve to die painful deaths

majormajor• 2 months ago

I think centralized code hosting is pretty much going to get killed by AI. Just like it's doing to social media.

Private corporate codebases are a poor fit for GH because they don't benefit from public social graph effects. And the typical codebase isn't so large as to be technically challenging to deal with with OSS tools. I'd guess they make up a substantial share of revenue.

But once the reliability is called into question, self-hosted or smaller alternatives start to look good. Although there's some trickiness there if you want to be super cautious about making sure you can get to your code+infra in case of a vendor incident, especially if you're cloud based.

ako5• 2 months ago

Why is centralized code hosting getting killed? I'm running an opensource project, >99% of the code is AI generated, could not do this without GitHub. Ai generated source code needs a place where AIs and people can collaborate. I'm expecting GitHub to be hugely successful, but mostly for an AI audience.

kyrra• 2 months ago

Saas code hosting seems to be the problem here. If companies self hosted, they could deal with the scaling problems themselves.

logicchains• 2 months ago

What's preventing the same infrastructure challenges of millions of lines of AI-generated code destroying it?

There's something called "rate limits" that engineers not working for GitHub have probably heard of; it's this crazy idea that you should limit the load on your infra in order to avoid downtime. GitHub is not the first free service to ever have to deal with bots.

einsteinx22• 2 months ago

I mean, I'm all for jumping on the Microsoft hate train, but not if it misses the elephant in the room.

That elephant didn’t even exist yet for the first few years of poor uptime shown in the graph in TFA… I don’t really disagree if we’re talking about the recent uptime issues, but how does that explain the years 2020-2023?

phpnode• 2 months ago

Because if you were building GitHub from scratch today you wouldn't build it the same way and would benefit from many of the technological advancements of the last 2 decades (nearly).

watwut• 2 months ago

I dont even like AI much and this still seem to me like yet another instance of people blaming AI for normal mismanagement and failure.

hirako2000• 2 months ago

GitHub hasn't changed in any positive way since the acquisition. A decade is a long time, it tells.

GitHub action, co pilot. Oh and that ugly AI search I'm unable to disable. Migration to azure.

Yes Microsoft managed to ruin the network effect. Outages? The straw that broke the camel's back.

Pay08• 2 months ago

How on earth is Actions a downside?

madeofpalk• 2 months ago

3 months post Microsoft acquisition, GitHub expanded the free plan to include unlimited private repos.

The next year they removed the limitation on collaborators on private repos for free users.

In the last 4 years they’ve significantly improved their project management tools. I think a lot of teams can make do with GitHub Projects, they’re pretty decent.

Who knows if any of these are directly because of Microsoft or not. But there has naturally been material improvements to GitHub in the years after being bought by Microsoft.

ako5• 2 months ago

I'm loving it, running an opensource project mostly AI generated, i don't have to think about version control, building and testing my app, running AI code review, hosting my docs website, API and cli to enable Claude Code to interact with everything, etc.

It provides huge value for anyone running an opensource AI generated project.

politelemon• 2 months ago

GitHub hasn't changed in any positive way since the acquisition.

It's more like any positive actions they have had are being outright dismissed or forgotten. They removed several restrictions that Github had over private accounts, as well as github actions. Aside from the downtimes, the Github of today is fantastic compared to pre-acquisition Github.

rvz2• 2 months ago

Github had lots of outages even before AI was introduced.

senko• 2 months ago

The 800 pound gorilla in the room being a $3T company that also happens to be one of the largest cloud providers?

C'mon.

delusional• 2 months ago

This would make sense if GitHub themselves cited increased traffic or load shedding as their root cause, but most of their incidents from the last month seems to cite misconfigured infrastructure or operational mistakes.

dwroberts• 2 months ago

Even if this is true: Microsoft own an entire cloud platform. They have enormous codebases of their own and they employ ~200k people. It’s just not an excuse, especially because they consciously made decisions such as e.g. private repositories being free

veryfancy• 2 months ago

I’m with you here. Further: Even though I disagree with it, “GitHub down, Microsoft bad” is a defensible take, but we’ve seen it ad nauseam at this point.

hackton• 2 months ago

If that's the case, we should also see the exact same pattern on Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc. Do we?

spiderfarmer• 2 months ago

What is easier to 10x? A tent or a flat?

fontain• 2 months ago

10x of nothing is nothing.

stusmall• 2 months ago

GitHub has been basically the default for free public git hosting for a long time. I was curious what bitbucket has and it looks like the free tier is so limited, I can't imagine a lot of people hosting vibe coded open source there.

einsteinx22• 2 months ago

The graph in TFA shows the downtime pattern starting in January 2020. OpenAI released GPT-3.5 in November 2022 (basically December), and LLM/agentic coding didn’t really kick off in the way you’re describing until 2024, but really in 2025.

How can that explain the terrible uptime for the ~4 years post acquisition before all the AI stuff you’re talking about started?

johnfn2• 2 months ago

The subjective experience I and others report is that GitHub feels to have gotten significantly worse over the last few months. If you look at the month over month view of "Uptime history" in the cited link[1], it confirms this: it's been sub-90 (even sub-80 last month) essentially since the start of this year (i.e. when GitHub says that commit activity 10xed). Go back even a year and it's all in the high 9s.

I honestly can't explain the discrepancy between the graph in the article and the month over month stats on the same page, but the latter tracks both to my own subjective experience of GitHub and their own internal metrics.

[1] https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

silverwind• 2 months ago

I think it's just a case of brain drain, followed by reckless AI adoption which both drove the quality down.

chilmers• 2 months ago

The graph is not accurate, because GitHub's historical downtime data is not accurate.

For example, here is a Hacker News story about GitHub being down on July 28th 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12178449

Here's GitHub's historical uptime graph (on which this chart is based), saying there was no recorded downtime that day, or in fact that entire month: https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=40

MallocVoidstar• 2 months ago

The graph in the article is a lie, because GitHub's "historical data" is a lie.

https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=3000

According to it, GitHub had 100% uptime from June to August 1996.

gverrilla• 2 months ago

We want to thank you for your heroic service in our defense, sir. We really need people like you who know in what side they're at.

Microsoft investors

ExoticPearTree• 2 months ago

I like to think that Microsoft is trying to run GitHub in Windows in their Azure cloud. And on the fact that every time GitHub is down I think of "someone updated the Windows Servers GH runs on and had to reboot everything".

While I'm 99% sure it is not true, it makes me sleep better at night. And giggle a little when it goes down.

QuercusMax• 2 months ago

They definitely do something with Azure. Stuff related to GitHub action runs hosted on something.windows.net, which I believe is azure.

thayne• 2 months ago

MS isn't solely to blame for the AI increase, but they are certainly part of the problem, including their integration of copilot into Github.

namenotrequired• 2 months ago

The author mentions this and links an article that expands on it

pelasaco3• 2 months ago

Yes, I posted the same observation 3 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877226

"Yes, it (AI) will kill open source—at least as we know it. I’m convinced that GitHub and GitLab will eventually stop offering their services for free if the flood of low-quality, "vibe-coded" projects—complete with lengthy but shallow documentation—continues to grow at the current rate."

lbrito• 2 months ago

Gergely's newsletter claims its more like 2.3x.

0xblinq• 2 months ago

A big part of the problem IS Microsoft acquisition. They forced them to move to Azure, which is terrible.

Around 8 years ago I was working for a company that they also acquired, and they also forced us to move to Azure. Performance was terrible and our system wasn’t just working there as it should. A few years later our service was dead and all customers moved to one of their office products.

xantronix2• 2 months ago

Don't you think Microsoft ought to have thought a bit more about scale? They're not just innocent bystanders here. GitHub Copilot is a first class citizen of GitHub and so of course a lot of private enterprises are going to be using the thing that's bundled with the other thing.

pixl97• 2 months ago

Pray tell where are they going to get memory from?

shevy-java2• 2 months ago

And why is it wrong? The logic is there:

- Microsoft committed to AI. - AI slop is increasing the costs for maintaining/running GitHub. - GitHub is sinking.

This is interconnected. I can think of numerous other ways how this would be handled. But Microsoft went the AI slop way already. There is no way back for them.

UltraSane• 2 months ago

If load has increased so much so rapidly then GitHub should be rate limiting as needed instead of basically letting people DoS them.

turtlebits• 2 months ago

10x the code? Easy solution. Throttle unpaid customers or put a quota.

Either way, paid customers should not be affected.

fwlr• 2 months ago

Why have they not simply asked the 800lb gorilla to solve this problem for them?

gofreddygo• 2 months ago

For upstarts, individuals, artists and idealists, Github was a means to reach and distribute code reliably to a large number of people on the planet. Is that true today? Will it ever?

97% of code coming in is AI slop. It's owned by an evil, rent seeking corp. Reliability is a flaming dumpster fire. And everything you commit there will be used to train more AI.

Github _is_ sinking.

yks• 2 months ago

Got me thinking, if 99% of code pushed to GH is generated by Claude, GH just becomes a free Claude distillation service. Gotta ban it on natsec grounds obviously.

quyleanh• 2 months ago

Totally agree. People’re saying Microsoft this, Microsoft that with their Microsoft hate, but they ignore the fact that AI trend making GitHub worse, and GitHub is trying to fix.

iamkrazy3• 2 months ago

I installed forgejo on my home server and never looked back. The only problem I face is when hosting an app on DigitalOcean App platform, or vercel etc. They only connect to GitHub.

cobbzilla• 2 months ago

I’m in a similar boat, I abandoned ship for Gitea years ago (prior to forgejo fork) and have no regrets.

For things that require GitHub I’ve been able to mirror repos there and get things working. Keeping code in sync is annoying though.

lorecore• 2 months ago

All of the reasons to avoid GitHub are also reasons to avoid the Digital Ocean App platform and Vercel. I use Digital Ocean, but just the VPSs. Don't let yourself get vendor locked in with these middle men, retain control and shoot for the most universal level of the stack you can.

iamkrazy3• 2 months ago

It's just a step. I will eventually move to coolify, just haven't had time to set it up. But the problem stands: coolify also doesn't connect to forgejo.

sinpif• 2 months ago

Similar situation with Apple's Xcode Cloud.

iamkrazy3• 2 months ago

Have never developed on/for apple platform, so I have no clue. Apple makes setting up development so hard, I wonder what motivates developers to jump through all the hoops.

cxr• 2 months ago

DigitalOcean App platform[…] only connect to GitHub

They also support deployments from GitLab (so long as you're using the gitlab.com-hosted instance and not a self-hosted GitLab instance). If you've deployed your own self-hosted forge, then you can connect DigitalOcean App Platform to it by using gitlab.com as a bridge—register an account on gitlab.com once and instruct your self-hosted forge to replicate copies to gitlab.com. You don't really need to actually use GitLab.

Having said that, considering that DigitalOcean is in the business of selling IaaS/PaaS, it's loony that they don't let you connect to, say, your own self-hosted Forgejo running on their infrastructure…

(Indeed, considering how many people would like to self-host their own forge but how few people want to actually set up and do admin for it, it's loony that DigitalOcean doesn't pick up, say, Forgejo and/or an alternative and offer a sharply discounted (e.g. $20/year) quasi-managed one-click deployment option with first-class support for connecting to their App Platform.)

mariocesar• 2 months ago

Agree with Gitlab as an enterprise alternative. Beautifully boring and safe to have complex teams and permissions. Also has a good enough Terraform support, and a nice workflow to host docker images

coolgoose• 2 months ago

So, what's the actual real alternative ? The one that also supports open source projects ? Ironically gitlab is costlier than github, and not without their faults, but that's "maybe" the only other alternative here, anything else ?

kukkeliskuu2• 2 months ago

I just installed a gitea. It seems decent.

TheCondor• 2 months ago

It absolutely is.

The only concerns are if it were exposed to the public internet and scale. For personal stuff? It's spectacular.

MrDrMcCoy• 2 months ago

Codeberg, Sourcehut, or self hosted Gitea.

lawn3• 2 months ago

I've been running a self-hosted Forgejo. Extremely responsive and I've been really happy with it.

IshKebab4• 2 months ago

How many PRs from other people have you received on your self-hosted Forgejo instance?

negura5• 2 months ago

have you read the submission? have of it is a list of alternatives

ndsipa_pomu2• 2 months ago

It's not that difficult to self-host the free version of gitlab.

ternaryoperator• 2 months ago

Looking at the suggestions for self-hosting here and in other threads, I wonder why self-hosting Fossil is not more widely done. From the comments I’ve seen from its users, it seems to work quite well.

n_e• 2 months ago

I'm not sure what to make of the graph.

On the one hand the acquisition of GitHub may have caused the availability to be worse.

On the other hand, the 100.00% availability before the acquisition looks suspicious, wondering if it's not just the status page being better updated.

(I'm aware of the recent availability problems with GitHub, but on the graph the problems start in 2020 and don't seem to worsen significantly)

rbbydotdev• 2 months ago

I wasn't expecting to see the outages being nearly the same even before the 2023 ai inflection point

QuiCasseRien2• 2 months ago

onedev onedev ondev

I still don't see this tool when it's about a forge. It is a fantastic tool. Seriously guys, you should really consider it !

drcongo• 2 months ago

I'm intrigued as to why you're getting downvotes here, I'm vaguely interested in onedev.

Edit: Though I do think they're mad for not offering a hosted version, especially right now while GitHub resentment is riding high.

QuiCasseRien2• 2 months ago

There is a self-hosted version of onedev, it's oss. But there is also a enterprise version (I have one) with very nice plugins most of forge doesn't still have (like the web terminal to debug oui action/ci/cd).

Last week, Robin release a very nice feature for vibe coder. AWESOME

phyzix5761• 2 months ago

For $5 a month I can host a server and put a bunch of projects on there. Yeah, I don't have a million stars on my repos but it works for what I need and I can give access to whoever I want.

imagetic• 2 months ago

Anyone would buckle right now. Microsoft just sucks more at it.

ChrisArchitect• 2 months ago

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579

Before GitHub

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921

Days without GitHub incidents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012022

GitHub Actions is the weakest link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933257

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357

functionmouse• 2 months ago

Extinguish

nate8bit• 2 months ago

I would not be surprised if AI commits are the culprit. There is no way any service would cope with a constant stream of unfettered commits by sleepless always-on agents. Ironically, this same strategy seems to be what GH/MS (and other big companies) are evangelizing - and therefore dying by their own hand (in a way).

signal_lamp• 2 months ago

AI commits are definitely causing the recent issues with their platform as Github has seen an unprecedented amount of traffic since the introduction of OpenClaw. They are likely showing us a future problem that other sites have not experienced yet as the tools have not matured in a way for people to be able to adopt them towards their eventual vision for managing someone entire digital life.

That being said, Microsoft in general in relation to GitHub has shown at least historically they've caused more issues. Outages on Github have become so common place that I genuinely think people have simply gotten used to it. The recent round of these were just bad enough where people felt strong enough to make their own down status page https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/. Whether you agree with how they gathered their data, there is something being felt by the community that Microsoft is not being transparent with these issues.

tristanj2• 2 months ago

Yes this is confirmed. Github activity surged about 10x in the past year: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Platform activity is surging. 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.

So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features.

Thom2000• 2 months ago

Github still doesn't support SHA-256 git repos (https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/12490) even though their competitors (Gitlab, Codeberg) have that for ages now.

rurban2• 2 months ago

And a github employee implemented that...

i_love_retros• 2 months ago

I think they went too far with AI internally. Complete collapse in quality of internal engineering practices.

sccxy• 2 months ago

Living in Eastern Europe has its perks. I hardly ever notice big GitHub outages because of time zone.

I'm also happy with how generous their free hosting and actions are.

pelasaco3• 2 months ago

People used GitHub's free infrastructure for over a decade without complaining. Now AI-generated spam and massive amounts of low-quality code are increasing costs everywhere, and suddenly GitHub is the bad guy for acting like a business. Criticizing centralization is fair, but pretending GitHub gave nothing to open source is just dishonest. Alternatives today, are probably going to be flooded by the low-quality AI generated code tomorrow...

ricksunny• 2 months ago

I like the "written by human" banner at the bottom - that's a first for me and will be glad to see others adpot similar.

Written by human All opinions are my own and not those of a large language model. Everything I write is one hundred percent human. Because I care!

shevy-java2• 2 months ago

It will be a long way before GitHub dies, but it is definitely sinking. Slop is killing it. I think Microslop, 'xcuse me, Microsoft, realises this too, but there is nothing they can do now that they committed to AI fully. I feel sad for the GitHub engineers, because they write pointless blog entries nobody believes anymore. Meanwhile existing services erode in quality. It's like in a submarine. You have one hole. You manage it. Well, more and more holes pop up the following days. We know where this is headed then ...

ninkendo• 2 months ago

I often think about how I’d do it if I ran my own company.

I would really like to see what it would be like doing all code reviews over email. The repo would just be a simple vps-style server with git-only ssh access, there’d be a particular for-review/ branch namespace for code to be reviewed, and CI would just be a bot waiting for branches to show up and would mark refs as good or not by just annotating/tagging them. It could reply in the email thread with results too.

The mailing list would have a web archive viewer, naturally. That’s how you could look at old reviews. There’s tons of existing solutions for this, and it’s just html.

Chat would be on IRC with bots to archive the channels. Easy as hell.

The whole thing (except maybe the CI runners which need beefier hardware) could be done on a very cheap server.

GitHub is waaay over engineered for what you need to run a software project. Look at the Linux kernel, they just use a simple mailing list, and it’s debatably the most successful software project of all time.

Issue/bug tracking is scarier though. Because I’d probably want to yak shave my own solution and get too involved with that and not even focus on what the company does. Maybe it could be a bug tracking software company?

Asooka2• 2 months ago

Ideally I would want the code review to be versioned as well with easily accessible history. That is, I would like to see the exact lines which a comment pertains to and when they were changed and switch back and forth. While e-mail is probably good enough as a protocol to exchange this data, the e-mail client is not a good way to view it in my opinion. Maybe we need a decentralised code review system as well.

dtoffe• 2 months ago

AFAIK Sourceforge is alive and kicking, and it has an "Import from Github" feature that has been available for years.

umvi• 2 months ago

Don't they inject malware/adware into your build artifacts?

lelanthran7• 2 months ago

Don't they inject malware/adware into your build artifacts?

Aw, c'mon! The did this for about 4 months which ended in 2015! Prior to that they had Windows installers which did the same, but that also only lasted a few months.

It's now 2026. Exactly what software did you host on sourceforge from 2011 to 2015? Because I hosted my GPL stuff there, and I moved away because I was affected, and yet I am not concerned that they will do that again.

msyea• 2 months ago

The issue is every AI coding tool integrates as a "GitHub App" (OAuth, PATs, webhooks etc.) first, over other code forges. This load is coming through their 3rd party app integrations. I bet the web/git volume isn't getting smashed as much.

I had to begrudgingly use GitHub over my preference GitLab to use some 3rd party AI features.

The solution for GitHub is to charge or rate-limit some of these 3rd parties integrations and come up with an equitable solution.

sscaryterry• 2 months ago

"If Linux can be maintained by sending patches to an email mailing list, “doesn’t work at scale” arguments are skill issues."

Agreed. Sick of the bloatware.

marking-time• 2 months ago

I left Github because of some very strange activity. I had a new folder named "feature" added to one of my repos. At the time I had failed to turn off the AI integrations, so I figured that was the problem.

There is no way I'm going to let a VCS put code into one of my repos without my asking for it or consent. Full stop. I moved all my significant code to codeberg but kept the github account, so my username doesn't get squatted.

negura5• 2 months ago

One shift in perspective I had was realizing that github is not just a code forge, but a social network.

tristanj2• 2 months ago

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up.

Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Platform activity is surging. 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.

So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features.

il-b• 2 months ago

Who cares about bugs when their developer velocity has increased 5x!

senorqa• 2 months ago

OneDev is pretty cool too https://onedev.io/

abstractspoon• 2 months ago

I've never had a problem in 10 years of daily use

ozgrakkurt• 2 months ago

A lot of posts are defending Microslop’s failure by explaining their traffic increased.

This is not a problem caused by normal people doing normal things so I don’t understand why people should take this into consideration.

- They knew the traffic would increase.

- they have the capacity to handle such traffic financially.

- there are a ton of other systems that handle more traffic and basically never go down.

- they don’t have to accept slop into their platform.

1970-01-01• 2 months ago

Dashboard events are not user experiences. GitHub is sinking in the same fashion as NYC or LA population is declining. Put some data behind the argument and it falls apart.

GitHub is sinking

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