| ▲ | paxys 5 hours ago |
| Took a full 8 years for a Microsoft acquisition to go to shit, which is probably a record. Kudos to the Github team for holding out this long. |
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| ▲ | AndroTux 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I’m still baffled that Minecraft is doing so well, despite the whole Bedrock thing. At this point I think Microsoft just forgot that they bought Mojang. |
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| ▲ | PaulKeeble 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Its had its fair share of outages and outrageous changes that overreach the bounds as well. Its more stable than github is but its had at least 2 sessions of downtime this year that I recall and they were both quite long (day length). | |
| ▲ | joshribakoff an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They don’t enforce or even default to 2fa to change the account email. In addition, they have no process to get a human to reverse account takeovers. Just a web form that tells you to call a number that redirects you back to a web form | |
| ▲ | spauldo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | They'd lose a whole lot of users if they killed Java edition, since the modded community is so large. They'd quickly find one of the Minecraft clones reaching feature parity. And there's no good reason for it - it's not like Java is a threat anymore. | | |
| ▲ | AndroTux 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Exactly. So why isn't Microsoft doing just that? Isn't that how Microsoft usually handles things? Just look at Xbox. They essentially screwed up everything they could and then some. |
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| ▲ | cedws 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If I remember correctly UK players can no longer chat at all until they verify their ID. | |
| ▲ | 7777332215 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Minecraft is a trick up their sleeve yet to be used. Manipulate and indoctrinate the youth. | | |
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| ▲ | merlindru 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| GitHub has always been incredibly outage riddled no? This is not a MSFT thing |
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| ▲ | nine_k 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't remember that happening so much (if ever) in, say, 2016. But the frequency of noticeable incidents seemingly has been rising steadily since around 2023. The Azure migration apparently only exacerbated it. | | |
| ▲ | georgel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I remember it going down semi-regularly in the 2013+ era, and seeing HN posts about it. Especially if you were using a package manager reliant on GitHub like Cocoapods. It seems to me it is more "impactful" on the dev community now that they have gone past just being a centralized Git server for the team, to being the thing that does deploys and all sorts of other things. | |
| ▲ | 0x457 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I remember seeing unicorn daily and "webhook delivery delayed" weekly. I think it got better, but also they got more traffic, now millions of agents read files separately over and over again. IMO it's much better now. | |
| ▲ | gbear605 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Circa 2019, my office had a bell that we would ring whenever GitHub had an outage, and it was rung several times per week. |
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| ▲ | bandrami an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think having a single 9 of uptime is a relatively new thing even for GH |
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| ▲ | xeonmc 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How fast was Skype? |
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| ▲ | htrp 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| To be fair a bunch of this is because the CEO after Nat Friedman (Thomas Dohmke) was pushed out in August 25. |
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| ▲ | carlosft 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | And a ton of the top end ruby staff have left. Many of them ended up at shopify. There is a growing about of non ruby/rails code at github, but most of the system that people think of when they think github are ruby/rails. | | | |
| ▲ | workfromspace 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Who was also the last CEO, right? Is this a coincidence? |
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