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1. edgyqu+t3[view] [source] 2023-06-29 17:53:40
>>mikebo+(OP)
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
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2. dathin+9D[view] [source] 2023-06-29 20:33:28
>>edgyqu+t3
thats not very healthy given how unreliable github has become in recent years.

E.g. just yesterday for a short time frame of a few hours maybe half a day or so they had a bug where some closed PRs where shown in the personal which show created _not closed_ PRs.

Or github CI having spurious job cancellations or sometimes on a job failing waits until some (quite long) timeout is reached before reporting it.

Or it temporary being (partial or fully) down for a few hours.

Or it's documentation even through rather complete somehow managing to be often rather inconvenient to use. Oh wait that's not a bug, just subtle bad design, like it's PR overview/filters. Both cases of something which seems right on the first look, but starts being more and more inconvenient the more you use it. A trend I would argue describes GitHub as a whole rather well.

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