GitHub Actions was down

LoL they added "Copilot AI Model Providers" in githubstatus and it has 100% up time.

Thanks for pointing out that nobody is using that thing

List of things "DoS"d by AI:

- GitHub

- Hiring budgets

- RAM (/personal computing in general)

- Electricity

- Media/Content

- Truth

The main operating model with git is going to go back to decentralized. Setting up and managing something like https://forgejo.org/ is a way better experience than constant interruptions by a faulty service that can't meet demand.

The open source contribution model as we once knew it is dead; you're not going to accept patches from random agents. The risk is way too high. And you can see that increasingly "AI Slop" makes it difficult to be a maintainer of any semblance of a popular repo.

So what's the value? A durable place to store work? hah.

Discovery? That part of Github has always been shitty.

So that leaves.. Github Actions? The thing that is down every other day and has been the subject of a few ~rug pulls~/attempted price hikes that are almost surely coming back?

Will more copilot usage fix this? We should try more copilot.

Microsoft is really working hard to kill off GitHub now. That's quite amazing.

We have already seen this in the last some weeks, but now this has become a meme that keeps on giving. GitHub down! GitHub up again. GitHub Down! GitHub ... ...

This is your periodic reminder that Github is growing at ~14x (1400%!) annually. This would be incredible growth for a young, unprofitable, VC-funded startup, even Uber never achieved more than ~3x AFAIK. For a widely-established company that was already very well known and a market leader in its niche for many years? Absolutely unprecedented.

This is a conservative estimate assuming linear growth, the actual number is likely going to be higher. Much higher.

It's not too hard to grow 14X YoY if you start from a hundred customers. If you have hundreds of millions? Yeah, not so easy.

[1] https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

I think we should start betting if GitHub will be down on Polymarkets or something at this point.

I started an open source Git platform. Can be self hosted. I would call it beta at this point if you are interested in trying it. https://velogit.com

Git is decentralized until it's used by companies.

Not to shill myself, but I'm sick and tired of this and been sick and tired for the last month. Decided to quit my job to work on https://harmont.dev

'Degraded' should be banned in status pages. It sounds just irresponsible, like "Yeah, it can be slow or something sometime. Whatever. Who cares"

No way - everyone tells me the AI adoption is going great?

oh man spent so much time trying to debug what's going on. I have a complex setup with GitHub Actions and self hosted runners so I thought it's something broken in my CI setup

Does anyone use any good alternatives to GitHub Actions?

How's the AI generated code running for ya?

Has anyone actually moved off? If so where?

I like being able to vote with my (teams) wallet and I'm tired of staying out of convenience

Contingency action plan: Codeberg. Engage.

At this point it's as if the team there went "fuck it, let's just watch it all burn down" or something.

With all the recent negativity – how are they not even TRYING to fix the damn thing?

i still can't see many pull requests in a bunch of repositories... it's been over a month

When is it up?

Tell Claude to fix it, simple.

Super odd make productivity useless

My first time using GH Actions was last week. GH was so flaky that pulling a submodule failed >50% of the time. I had to write a script to retry pulling the submodule in a loop.

I've done some hacky shit in CI scripts, but none made me more mad than that one.

here all is ok, 3 actions without problem

Feels like Github Actions is UP should on the front page (when it happens) at this point. Down is no longer front page worthy

It should be up again

This has become so typical that we've started working on a modern Github alternative called Plain.

Perfect timing that we post https://www.jxd.dev/writing/building-plain just as this latest incident started.

Stop relying on Github.

Self hosted Gitlab with self hosted (or AWS) runners running your pipelines.. We only use Github as a mirror for our public repositories.

With the increasing challenges from bots and ai agents created with toddler level clarity, Self hosting is going to continue to work.

my work is totally stop. cry

Zero Nines. Bogus.

Too many DEI hires? Or maybe H-1Bs? Or maybe it's a vibe coding problem.

microsoft github should work at restoring interop with noscript/basic HTML browsers...

Too many times we've been bitten by this - it has been an issue too many times to count.

This is why we don't use Github Actions, kids.

Seriously, its a proprietary build service that puts the keys to the kingdom in someone elses' control. Just: No!

Print this status page to PDF so you've got it handy next time someone castigates you for not using Github Actions, folks.

Another outage at GitHub with actions and pages not working thanks to the AI agents Copilot and Tay.ai creating more issues. Last time this happened was 6 days ago. [0]

This time today it was caused by friendly fire by the automatic suspension of the GitHub Actions bot which is now a "Ghost" user. Since there is no CEO of GitHub to contact it we are just going to see more [1] of this again.

You might need to push a critical change soon, but now you cannot. You won't get any of these issues if you self hosted as I said 6 years ago...[2]

[0] https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g6ffrm0rfvz9

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085501

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

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https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-15-github-app-installa...

I'm guessing related to this? The blog post is dated 11 days ago but I just noticed a blue banner on my actions page today.