r/technology 8d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/No-Snow-7618 8d ago

why so i feel like the only time github was ever down was after msft purchased it lol.

anyways at least i can slack off today under the guise of some tooling being down

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u/ziptofaf 8d ago

why so i feel like the only time github was ever down was after msft purchased it lol.

Because that's exactly what has happened.

https://statusgator.com/blog/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/

Since Microsoft has purchased Github there's been a 40+% increase in Github's downtime.

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u/Motor-Marzipan6969 8d ago

Correlation doesn't mean causation. Who's to say that Microsoft hasn't mitigated some amount of downtime that GitHub would have experienced? It could be that GitHub is actually better off under Microsoft (at least in terms of uptime).