Another GitHub outage in the same day

GitHub had another wobble today, with key features like Actions (automated tasks), Issues (bug trackers), Pull Requests (code changes), and the core code syncing all slowing or failing — before GitHub Status said things were back to normal and promised a root-cause report. But the real action was in the comments, where patience ran out and drama ran hot.

One camp is done with trust-fall SaaS: “outages now feel cloud-scale,” warned users, asking who’s switching to self-hosted tools like GitLab or Gitea. Another camp demanded reliability over shiny features. noodlesUK said they moved their company to GitHub Enterprise and are now eyeing the exit thanks to “constant partial outages” — a corporate-level mic drop. Meanwhile, alexellisuk reported “429” errors (too many requests) strangling their release pipeline on self-hosted runners, the business equivalent of a red light at every intersection. kevmo314 wondered if GitHub’s feeling the crush from fully automated workflows and endless personal commits, hinting that the platform’s traffic diet is all carbs, no protein. And of course, the meme squad arrived, with sarcasm like “take your time, don’t even worry about it,” turning outage fatigue into gallows humor.

The vibe: reliability is king, teams feel blocked, and the debate’s boiling — stay with the giant, or roll your own and sleep better? Follow live updates via @githubstatus.