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Re:GitHub Actions Is Down by exochrono on Thursday August 06, 2026 @01:59PM (#49200083)
they walked that back for now at least - self-hosted gh runners are still free: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/...
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Re:GitHub Actions Is Down by inigyou on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:06PM (#49200169)
Well, they're still implemented that way.
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Re:GitHub Actions Is Down by arandomhuman on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:46PM (#49202301)
Can you share a source for this? it's not that I don't believe you but I've had difficulties finding one.
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Re:GitHub Actions Is Down by js2 on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:52PM (#49202382)
Do you have a source for this?
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Re:GitHub Actions Is Down by judge2020 on Friday August 07, 2026 @12:04AM (#49205789)
More likely is that the log streamer takes up some amount of resources and thus running it requires a baseline level of compute. But I doubt they spin up a small runner per-self-hosted runner, most likely some ruby workers (on distributed azure instances) are dedicated purely to streaming self-hosted runner logs to log consumers.

I'm certainly not surprised that they tried to sneak in billing self-hosted runner minutes at some ratio to potentially recoup the costs here.

0: https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/mana...

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