GitHub Actions is shitting the bed again

37 points by drcongo 5 hours ago on hackernews | 15 comments

are they vibe coding their infra? lost count of how many incidents they've had in 2026 alone

: nzeid | 5 hours ago
Take this with a grain of salt - several Youtube exposés showed that the Actions code was utter shit before LLM coding was widely available. I'm assuming the tech debt finally sent the product off a cliff.
: rvz | 4 hours ago
They had more outages years ago and now it is cronic, and can confirm GitHub is completely unreliable. You should expect an outage almost every week at this point.
I'm convinced that their wreckless AI chatbots such as Tay.ai [0] with Copilot have been maintaining Github and have replaced the employees at GitHub.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

Someone from GitHub please give us the tea on what the hell is really going on over there.

There were reports that they're migrating to Azure. Maybe it isn't going so well. I thought AI was supposed for have solved software engineering...

[OP] drcongo | 5 hours ago

I'm assuming they've completed the migration to Azure, so now GitHub is exactly as reliable as anything else on Azure.

: tomwphillips | 5 hours ago
In October they were talking about it taking 18 months.
https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

rvz | 4 hours ago

There is no-one at GitHub that is going to help. Not even a CEO of GitHub that will help you.

enraged_camel | 5 hours ago

This is pure absurdity at this point.

bracketfocus | 5 hours ago

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

Sitting at 91% platform uptime over the last 90 days, which is likely inflated due to the perfect uptime over December holidays. My guess is that is attributed to an internal code-freeze and generally reduced traffic.

None of their services have 99.9% availability.

: yifanl | 5 hours ago
Its a true marvel to barely have a single nine of uptime in 2026
: [OP] drcongo | 5 hours ago
According to that page Actions is absolutely fine today. That seems even less reliable than the official GitHub status page.
Edit: I do appreciate the aggregate though.

spongebobstoes | 5 hours ago

it's enough, I'm moving to another platform

rvz | 5 hours ago

Just watching Tay.ai and Zoe destroying GitHub, when there is no CEO of GitHub to go to.

Maybe self-hosting was a good idea after all in the long term. [0]

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

ramon156 | 4 hours ago

Imagine hosting a platform where - aside from major projects - it now has to host and build utter dogshit by the truckloads.

I'm not surprised, and I'm also not surprised by the outages that Anthropic has been having lately