mrshu

It really has been remarkable watching GitHub just crumble as an organization. There's a lot of discussion about why: the switch from being independent to being part of Microsoft, having resources pushed to Copilot instead of core service, the organization structure itself, a reliance on vibe coding, etc etc.

Regardless of the reason, it's undeniable that GitHub is facing some serious issues. The unofficial status page[1] tells a horrifying story.

I would absolutely love to get some insider perspective on this (if only to learn how to prevent it from happening anywhere I work), but I think it's clear to anyone who has been paying any attention that GitHub is a sinking ship and the only reason people haven't abandoned it already is inertia. Considering how much else is changing in software right now I don't think inertia is enough to sustain a company.

1. https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

The subjective experience I and others report is that GitHub feels to have gotten significantly worse over the last few months. If you look at the month over month view of "Uptime history" in the cited link[1], it confirms this: it's been sub-90 (even sub-80 last month) essentially since the start of this year (i.e. when GitHub says that commit activity 10xed). Go back even a year and it's all in the high 9s.

I honestly can't explain the discrepancy between the graph in the article and the month over month stats on the same page, but the latter tracks both to my own subjective experience of GitHub and their own internal metrics.

[1]: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

The missing status page [1] treats it as downtime any time any component of the system is down, and calculates the overall uptime based on the time that doesn't overlap with any individual category outages, and the overall downtime as any time overlapping with at least one individual category outage to avoid double-counting They show 24h of minor outage on that date.

I'm guessing that this site is taking the downtime in a given day across all services and adding it up, which would mean the worst possible day has 10 days of downtime (a day of downtime for each major category).

1: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

Their stability and reliability has deteriorated significantly.

So much so that they stopped posting uptime metrics for a while on their status page and an independent 3rd party created a website just for this:

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
(not my website)

According to that website, which unsurprisingly reports a lower number than what Github themselves claim, Github uptime is down to ~86%.

And if you work in the space, you know how terrible that is, but even more so for such a critical piece of infrastructure.

> They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet.

I don’t love GitHub, but that number is a little misleading… That’s the intersection uptime of all GitHub services, most of which I (and most users) do not care about; code spaces, copilot, packages etc…

When you take out those uptimes, it becomes a lot higher. I’ll admit there seems to be a lot more incidents than usual though…

Please tell me this makes sense

This website has no overused ai-generated animations and... I quite enjoy it. The original website[1] has a fade-in animation, big round cards, shadows, all the jazz you can think of, it's there.

This site is very readable, very honest and sober. I don't need to sift through buzzwords to figure out tiny details.

Thank you, OP!

1: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/