| ▲ | embedding-shape 4 hours ago |
| From GitHub CTO in 2025 when they announced they're moving everything to Azure instead of letting GitHub's infrastructure remain independent: > For us, availability is job #1, and this migration ensures GitHub remains the fast, reliable platform developers depend on That went about as well as everyone thought back then. Does anyone else remember back in ~2014-2015 sometime, when half the community was screaming at GitHub to "please be faster at adding more features"? I wish we could get back to platforms (or OSes for that matter) focusing in reliability and stability. Seems those days are long gone. |
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| ▲ | __alexs 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| GitHub have not really got much better at adding new features either though :( |
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| ▲ | phyzome 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't know, it's nice that they finally broke native browser in-page search. That's a great feature for people who hate finding things. | | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This was before Actions and a whole lot of other non-git related stuff. There was years (maybe even a decade?) where GitHub essentially was unchanged besides fixes and small incremental improvements, long time ago :) | | |
| ▲ | wongarsu an hour ago | parent [-] | | GH Actions was good for them as another billable feature, but I'm skeptical we actually gained much over external CI providers The improvements to PR review have been nice though | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > The improvements to PR review have been nice though I dunno, probably the worst UX downgrade so far, almost no PRs are "fully available" on page load, but requires additional clicks and scrolling to "unlock" all the context, kind of sucks. Used to be you loaded the PR diff and you actually saw the full diff, except really large files. You could do CTRL+F and search for stuff, you didn't need to click to expand even small files. Reviewing medium/large PRs is just borderline obnoxious today on GH. | | |
| ▲ | epistasis an hour ago | parent [-] | | I find it impossible to use the current diff view for most codebases, and spend tons of time clicking open all available sections... They have somehow found the worst possible amount of context for doing review. I tend to pull everything down to VS Code if I want to have any confidence these days. |
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| ▲ | cozzyd an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Don't forget the security implications if you host your own actions runner. |
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| ▲ | williamdclt an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They definitely have. Github evolved a lot faster after the microsoft acquisition, I remember being mildly impressed after it was stagnant for years (this is not an opinion on whether it was evolving in the right direction or if it was a good trade-off) | | |
| ▲ | __alexs an hour ago | parent [-] | | No they were slow at doing features before, and they are still slow afterwards. |
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| ▲ | carlmr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | They added the service unavailable feature. |
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| ▲ | braiamp 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > I wish we could get back to platforms (or OSes for that matter) focusing in reliability and stability That's only a valid sentiment if you only use the big players. Both of those have medium/smaller competitors that have shown (for decades) that they are extremely boring, therefore stable. |
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| ▲ | PxldLtd 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Try convincing the CTO that this panoply of smaller players will be around for 5yrs or worth the effort migrating to. I'm at a much smaller outfit now so we have more freedom but I'd dread to think the arguments I would've had at the 4000+ employee companies I was at before. |
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| ▲ | comboy 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think stability and reliability have vastly improved over the last years in general (not necessarily talking about gh specifically) It's just that everybody is using 100 tools and dependencies which themselves depend on 50 others to be working. |
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| ▲ | awestroke 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Perhaps when they switch over fully to Azure they'll forget to disable IPv6 access. One can dream |
