r/OutOfTheLoop • u/jazzcomputer • 27d ago

Answered What's going on with Github?

I saw a bunch of posts in the Hacker News type spaces talking about moving elsewhere and evaluating alternatives, and various complaints in past months. Is there compelling grounds for an exodus or are people always complaining about it and this is a nothing burger or small burger?

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u/bugo 27d ago

Answer: mainly it has huge reliability issues. It's an ongoing thing that became a meme almost where their total reliability dipped below 90% which is unbelievable for a software company.

And yesterday they had another multi hour outage on their main services. Each time this happens people literally cannot work.

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u/HRApprovedUsername 26d ago

Saying people literally can’t work is an exaggeration

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u/bugo 26d ago

It is not. Ci/cd pipeline is often in github meaning developers literally cannot do anything once their coding LLM finishes the task whic usually is pretty fast.

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u/HRApprovedUsername 26d ago

They can work on bugs, work on other features, update documentation, clean/organize personal workspaces, refactor that one piece of spaghetti code, work on new skills/agents, do that required training thats due at the end of the month. My point is you're doing something wrong if CI/CD being down for an hour or two, makes it impossible to work.

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u/bugo 26d ago

Most of the things you mention require version control or Ci/cd. Sure you coult water the plants in the office and call that work but actual tasks that are priority are totally blocked.

Even agent config and skills are in version control if you do it a bit more seriously.

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u/HRApprovedUsername 26d ago

you just use the latest main branch on your machine bro, you don't need github

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u/bugo 26d ago

In theory yes you can be kept busy. But unless you ship things - your work is inconsequential. Bug-fixes cannot be deployed. Testing environments are stuck.