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Re:GitHub Is Down by tapoxi on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:16AM (#46946883)
Is it really that much better than alternatives to justify these constant outages?
Re:GitHub Is Down by dsagent on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:18AM (#46946925)
We're starting to have that convo in our org. This is just getting worse and worse for Github.

Hosting .git is not that complicated of a problem in isolation.

Re:GitHub Is Down by bigfishrunning on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:36AM (#46947298)
No, but it has momentum left over from when it was much better. The Microsoft downslide will continue untill there's no one left
Re:GitHub Is Down by jeltz on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:58AM (#46947638)
Not any longer. It used to but the outages have become very common. I am thinking about moving all my personal stuff to Codeberg.
Re:GitHub Is Down by azangru on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:01PM (#46947676)
I love its UI (apart from its slowness, of course). I find it much cleaner than Gitlab's.
Re:GitHub Is Down by vvilliamperez on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:20AM (#46946964)
You can self-host GitHub enterprise.
Re:GitHub Is Down by poilet66 on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:26AM (#46947095)
Ooh - got a source?
Re:GitHub Is Down by stiaje on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:30AM (#46947165)
Re:GitHub Is Down by tacker2000 on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:42AM (#46947410)
Im using Bitbucket for years with no issues.
Re:GitHub Is Down by onraglanroad on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:32PM (#46948128)
The great advantage of Bitbucket is that it's so painfully slow you can't tell if it's down or not.
Re:GitHub Is Down by riffic on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:18AM (#46946915)
self-host your own services. There are a lot of alternatives to GitHub.
Re:GitHub Is Down by rvz on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:21PM (#46947964)
It always has been to just self host. Predicted GitHub's outage streak as far back as half a decade ago [0].

"A better way is to self host". [0]

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

Re:GitHub Is Down by shimman on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:34PM (#46949897)
Yes, for personal projects I just self-host an instance of forgejo with dokploy. Everything else I deploy on codeberg, which is also an instance of forgejo.