Re:Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
by leca on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:37PM
(#50429606)
As a company shipping a ton of shit, moving to anything is difficult. We have a self hosted gitlab (and forgejo) that's used by some people and it's fine.. but the UX is not on par with github. Forgejo self-hosted is not HA so we can't really move to it, Gitea is probably fine but hated for some reasons, we haven't tried it.
Github remains still the best option but the touch grass moments that the constant outages bring have us looking for a real good alternative. I'm personally quite excited by tangled.org, but we can't move to this until they have proper private repos and branch protection rules.
Re:Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
by bediger4000 on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:40PM
(#50429657)
I put together a gitea server on my home network. I'm gradually copying repos from GitHub.com to codeberg.com, then deleting them off GitHub.com
I've been anticipating big problems and/or extending and extinguishing since MSFT bought it, but the vibe coding MSFT does has made me accelerate the process.
Re:Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage
by cowlevel on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:11PM
(#50430160)
This one seems to be affecting large parts of the internet but at a low level, going by downdetector. Did someone strike Level3's core router with a backhoe? Maybe Russia got another undersea cable?
Github remains still the best option but the touch grass moments that the constant outages bring have us looking for a real good alternative. I'm personally quite excited by tangled.org, but we can't move to this until they have proper private repos and branch protection rules.
I've been anticipating big problems and/or extending and extinguishing since MSFT bought it, but the vibe coding MSFT does has made me accelerate the process.