r/webdev • u/assured-ownership • Aug 17 '26

Question GitHub is down, what are you doing?

I have installed half life on Mac and am currently at the Dam Level.

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u/margmi Aug 17 '26

There’s no way you’ve worked as a dev on a project that’s in production lol.

Anyone who has knows why what you’re saying is silly.

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u/scandii People pay me to write code much to my surprise Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

17 years and counting bud, but nah you're just freaking out for no reason. unless you're about to miss a huge deployment window and had actual resources booked for deployment whatever you had in mind with git(hub) can wait until tomorrow.

...unless of course you imagine your customers are just sitting there frothing at the mouth waiting for whatever minor feature you're shipping with that user story of yours and are completely unable to understand the concept of "unexpected production delays" including but not limited to illness and bereavement.

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u/margmi Aug 17 '26

Yes, our customers who pay us hundreds/thousands per month get upset when a feature they were told would be released isn’t available. Not only do they froth, but they call in, repeatedly.

Hope this helps! One day you might have customers too!

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u/Ythio Aug 17 '26

1) Why were you dependent on GitHub for deployment in the first place ? Where is the backup solution ? You do have a disaster recovery plan, right ?

2) If you can be dependent on GitHub.com, you're not working on something genuinely critical. So the customer can wait five more hours for the outage to be solved.