GitHub, including Enterprise (so not just Azure’s fault), has become unreliable, low quality software.

I say unreliable because I cannot rely on it to accurately do what it claims to do. I cannot trust any number. I cannot trust that actions I invoke will actually happen. I cannot trust that taking action will not have mysterious side effects (e.g. re-opening an issue my boss’s boss closed in 2017 without explanation). I think I trust the underlying git infra but at this point I’m not sure why I do.

I say low quality because it is extremely slow at random moments, gets into broken inconsistent UI states, has baffling UX choices that make it harder to navigate than it should be (particularly with new UIs), and overall just doesn’t have the fit and finish we should expect from software in 1996 - or 2026, or literally any time in between.

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plasma_beam 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For months now I've had scheduled GH Actions workflows that don't run on time, sometimes not at all. Like we're talking 4-8 hours later than the cron statement. Yesterday I finally gave up and just moved the trigger to AWS EventBridge Scheduler/Lambda. Maddening, but also we're talking code repos that are $0 for me. Not production level. I can't imagine people running Production pipelines on github.com.

	▲	itsmeduncan 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My scheduled for 8am PT GH actions workflows don't run until anywhere between 6-8 hours later. I gave up, and run them locally now. It is just to create a tag, and push to a specific place. A super simple problem that was solved for so long simply with GH Actions that just doesn't work anymore.
	▲	paradox460 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		At a previous gig we had a simple "reset staging" task on gha, that ran once a week on Tuesday It ran fine for years, then around November just stopped and never ran again. Tried moving it around for which time it would trigger, and it just never started again. Opened a ticket, and got nowhere
	▲	DetroitThrow 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've switched off to runners and event scheduling inside AWS, and am working on moving my company off of GitHub. I know engineers inside GitHub and it doesn't sound like the talk they've been putting out about reliability is actually being addressed with many resources internally; the best people in the company are chasing AI product features (which are apparently quite profitable).

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shmoil 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>> GitHub has become unreliable, low quality software.

They are owned by Microsoft, what did you expect exactly?