Three prevalent themes in the discussion
- GitHub’s reliability has noticeably degraded – many commenters point to frequent Actions queuing, outages, and blame the post‑acquisition era, AI‑driven load, or the Azure migration.
- outworlder: “Github seems to have degraded measurably after they got acquired. As is tradition.”
- nix0n: “I'm seeing at least one job showing up that way on the Github website that has already completed (on a self hosted runner, which is how I can tell).”
- shadowgovt: “The real issue GitHub is suffering from is they don't have a clean mechanism for filtering AI‑generated activity, which is growing exponentially and putting significant strain on their backend.”
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doomroot13: “Yes, but also in combination with the not‑borderline‑and‑actually insane growth in commits and load on the platform due to AI.”
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Exploration of alternatives / self‑hosting – users discuss moving CI/CD to self‑hosted Forgejo, Gitea, GitLab, or using AI‑assisted tooling to ease migration away from GitHub.
- EduardoBautista: “I am going to try out Cursor Origin, GitHub is just too much of a bottleneck these days.”
- embedding‑shape: “Self‑hosted $whatever, managed your way. CI/CD doesn't have to be dog‑slow or ever go down when you need it, only when you do your upgrades yourself, as god intended it.”
- Bnjoroge: “Forgejo, and Gitea are decent alternatives if you want to fully move off Github!”
- InsideOutSanta: “Moving from GitHub to Forgejo was much less of a problem than we thought when we just told Claude to figure everything out.”
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x86a: “Claude/codex has made the stickiness much less of a problem. We just say 'no new repos in GitHub' and then put agents on refactoring the existing repos for GitLab compatibility.”
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Coping strategies / acceptance of the situation – commenters suggest using downtime for other activities, accepting the status quo, or proposing business‑model tweaks (pricing, free‑tier limits) as ways to cope with or mitigate the impact.
- coldpie: “Yeah. Enjoy the rest of your day off. Winter's coming, maybe go hit a park for a few hours or play a new video game or something. Or take some time to learn a new skill or something.”
- JsonDemWitOster: “Not your fault if the company can't provide the tools to do the job, go find something better to do.”
- cwyers: “There is a screamingly obvious answer here and I don't understand why they aren't taking it -- raise prices, make the free tier less generous.”
- Normal_gaussian: “As it stands, customers aren't leaving because of the degraded performance. Free is generating paying customers.”
- 999900000999: “Ultimately if you’re on the titanic it’s easier to grab a life boat vs trying to avoid the ice berg.”