Copy/paste of a comment I posted a couple months ago:

I am not trying to make any excuses for GitHub, however I recall one tweet that made my eyes bug-out:

> Yup, 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.

https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

https://xcancel.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

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edit: see a counterpoint I posted down-thread.

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rand_r 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's fine, but rate limiting is a solved problem at this point. They need to rate-limit free accounts and be realistic about their limits instead of letting the system fail.

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chilmers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Free (and non-free) accounts are already rate limited. The likely problem is that individual accounts/repos rarely hit those limits, instead the explosive demand is due to a massive growth in the number of small, individual projects being creatd.

	▲	materielle 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The person you were applying to said “rate-limiting” but I think they meant “load-shedding”.
	▲	consumer451 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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Maxion 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Probably can't do that easily due to shitty engineering decisions in the past

	▲	4lx87 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or inept managers. Manager: Why is the site down!? Engineer: Because it can’t handle this level of traffic. We can rate limit to the level we can handle to keep the service running. Manager: Okay, let’s do that! Engineer: Okay. Rate limiting at N req/min. Manager: I’m getting complaints we’re denying service to customers!? We can’t rate limit our users if they want to use it. Increase the rate limits. I’ve had this conversation more than once in my career.

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zzbzq 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They were about to push a big change to actions pricing a little wihle ago and people revolted

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cedws an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

And most of that growth is just garbage. I'm not even anti-AI, but just look at the quality of projects on GitHub these days. The site is full of spam, it's not a place for professionals anymore.