GH was acquired by microsoft some eight years ago. It has been working quite well until recently.

People may have had complaints about functionality, features, commercial issues, but the thing used to at least have a decent uptime until recently.

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chris_money202 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Has nothing to do with Microsoft acquisition... AI usage has increased demand and load. More PRs, more Action runners, more of everything firing. GitHub just wasn't ready for the scale and are now having issues catching up with it as it continues to increase exponentially.

	▲	lqstuart 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		MSFT is also forcing its subsidiaries to “lean into AI” so that they can fire people to cover for Satya’s bad investments
	▲	voncheese 29 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, that and Microsoft has been slow to move the infrastructure to something that scales better to handle that load. The more surpassing part is that Microsoft hasn't figured out a way to manage/contain the AI-sourced traffic better so it doesn't create all this noisy neighbor problems for non-AI usage/users.

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05hundred an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It has been working quite well until recently.

I'm not sure how reliable the data is, but average uptime seems to have dipped measurably starting within a year of the aquisition, according to https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

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bsimpson 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It also used to be run as an independent company with access to MS's resources.

Now it's a unit in their AI hype machine.

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modriano an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

MSFT was pretty arms length for the first 5-6 years. I was honestly kind of impressed and it made my opinion of MSFT better. But then AI made it too attractive of a target and MSFT couldn't help but make it a place the former CEO wanted to leave (and it has been running headless for about a year now).

It's quite disappointing objectively, but I expected worse from MSFT.