Post #873533
2026-03-31 22:31 UTC
Replies (28)
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@xethos@mastodon.xethos.net 2026-04-01 07:33
@ironicbadger@techhub.social My favourite part is only hitting 100.0% uptime during winter break, when nobody is around to actively break it
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@Tubsta@soc.feditime.com 2026-03-31 22:39
@ironicbadger and still no #IPv6
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@jmelesky@tinylad.social 2026-04-01 01:53
@ironicbadger Geez, this is like what happened when they first tried to convert Hotmail to run on Windows servers.
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@Nimbius666@comp.lain.la 2026-04-01 01:55
@ironicbadger no fair. Oracle would have done it much faster but Redmond beat them to it :/
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@mc@toot.houbahouba.de 2026-03-31 22:32
@ironicbadger lessons learned? stay away from VC...grow organically and listen/follow your users demands ;)
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-03-31 22:52
@ironicbadger Woof.
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@cap_ybarra@beige.party 2026-03-31 23:10
@ironicbadger as a post msft acquisition survivor this tracks
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@Arapalla@aus.social 2026-04-01 01:10
@ironicbadger Closing it down and rolling its subscribers to MS products in 8 7 6 5 4
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@Amgine@mamot.fr 2026-04-01 01:11
@ironicbadger Azure.
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@AcornSquashbuckler@tech.lgbt 2026-04-01 01:28
@ironicbadger #Alt4You A graph demonstrating that the GitHub website's uptime suffered considerably after being acquired by Microsoft. The graph shows average uptime of the website by-month from April 2016 to January 2026. Months that earn 100% are colored green, while months that miss that goal are colored either red or yellow, depending on some undisclosed metric of severity. A line is marked in November 2018 where Microsoft acquired GitHub. Before that, no months were visibly worse than 100%. There's one red dot, but it's not visibly different otherwise. For the first year after the acquisition uptime is worse but acceptable, and stays above 99.95%: six out of 12 months earn 100%. After October 2019 the story flips completely. Only one month has earned 100% uptime since then, and the remaining months vary wildly from 99.98% to about 99.70%. May 2023 was the worst, crashing almost as low as 99.5% uptime. Honestly, it looks like a seismograph that's started recording an active earthquake.
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange 2026-04-01 02:06
@ironicbadger big oof (for smallish values of oof) but I’d also like to see that graphed against active usage volume to get the full picture (yes, regardless, a “hyperscaler” should be able to handle the volume)
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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange 2026-04-01 02:08
@ironicbadger Why settle for Five Nines of reliability when you can get Nine Fives?
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@justbob@kolektiva.social 2026-04-01 02:16
@ironicbadger That is the least of the problems with it, got that damn AI stealing everyones hard work
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@andymckay@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 02:29
@ironicbadger hmm, quite a few opinions on that chart 😀 tl;dr it’s complicated. Most of GitHub services, until I left a couple of years ago were not on Azure.
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@OrionKidder@mas.to 2026-04-01 02:30
@ironicbadger Acquire and ruin. This is the corporate way.
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@a_different_jlh@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 03:20
@ironicbadger Where was this chart published?
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@llewelly@sauropods.win 2026-04-01 03:49
@ironicbadger behold the jagged teeth of the dog that eat all the dogfood!
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@Jourei@mas.to 2026-04-01 03:50
@ironicbadger Could anyone explain to me, how is this possible? I would imagine they would keep things running on the original hardware etc. which I wouldn't expect to fluctuate like this.
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@thunfisch@chaos.social 2026-04-01 04:28
@ironicbadger @isotopp what’s the data source behind it? Official status page? Because that has been notoriously inaccurate long before microslop took over.
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2026-04-01 04:44
@ironicbadger The inverse Midas touch
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@ingoschi@digitalcourage.social 2026-04-01 05:04
@ironicbadger searching for "github downtime 2016" I don't trust the old values
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@simonwaight@mastodon.online 2026-04-01 05:23
@ironicbadger interested if you can map that to growth/shrinkage in users and/or volume or data being used.
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@luceos@fosstodon.org 2026-04-01 05:37
@ironicbadger wait, they went from 100% uptime on their own servers,which were constantly on, to 99,5% as lowest uptime on a scalable infrastructure? That's 3,5 hours max spread over a month. And you're taking the piss on them for that? That's wild. Maybe focus on their link to Israel in the Gaza war or something.
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@follpvosten@karp.lol 2026-04-01 05:55
@ironicbadger@techhub.social lmao yeah that checks out
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@zetasyanthis@dragon.style 2026-04-01 05:55
@ironicbadger@techhub.social And this is why we keep local repo copies for production repos. :)
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-01 05:56
@ironicbadger@techhub.social Microsoft has always had a peculiar reverse Mida's touch, transforming into junk everything they touch - remember Zune, Windows Phone, etc.
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@coldclimate@hachyderm.io 2026-04-01 06:35
@ironicbadger@techhub.social is that because people left, or tech investments stopped, or something like bits of housing were moved to azure?
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@comsey@mstdn.social 2026-04-01 07:04
@ironicbadger@techhub.social I expect them to start measure the SLA properly after the acquisition - such a change looks rather than a change of methodology rather than immediate effect of a merge (fuck Microsoft anyway, but not for that)