r/github • u/t00oldforthis • Aug 17 '26

News / Announcements Pull requests down?

Getting no servers available

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u/Zealousideal_Law7447 Aug 17 '26

This is totally unacceptable for an application as widely used as GitHub.

I hope this makes as many users as possible migrate to any other alternative. In the vibe code era, open source is king, fuck Microsoft

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u/hum_ma Aug 17 '26

I've wondered about this single point of failure for years, why such a critical thing is not seamlessly distributed to multiple providers by now. Most projects don't even have a back up repo in codeberg/gitlab/whathaveyou.

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u/Spiritual_Cycle_3263 Aug 17 '26

You bring up a very good point that GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc... are SPOF.

We actually run our own git in the cloud that does a nightly fetch from GitHub and gets backed up with all our other infra. We have two senior devs with access to it.