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Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

What HN thinks

Another day ending in 'y', another GitHub outage, and the status page is still green.

Status page can't be trusted
Many say GitHub's status page lags or misses real outages, so teams waste time debugging their own systems before blaming GitHub.
Reduce dependence on GitHub
Commenters suggest self-hosted forges like Gitea or Forgejo, other CI services, OCI artifacts for GitOps, or deploy scripts that can run without GitHub Actions.
SSH key deprecation likely culprit
Several people traced their SSH failures to a scheduled brownout removing ssh-rsa SHA-1 support, and HTTPS remotes worked as a stopgap.

Consensus: Most agree GitHub's reliability has become a real business liability, even for paying customers, and that relying on it as a single point of failure is risky.

Recommended in the comments

Forgejo (tool): Self-hosted with runners whose workflow syntax is almost identical to GitHub Actions.
Gitea ↗ (tool): Easy to set up, with a good API; one user migrated in 30 minutes during the outage.
Woodpecker CI ↗ (tool): Simpler than GitHub Actions syntax and runs well on Kubernetes.
Blacksmith (service): Makes runners about 2x faster and has a generous free tier.
RWX ↗ (service): Reported 2x to 10x faster than GitHub Actions and can test uncommitted changes.
Flux (tool): Can fetch OCI artifacts from a registry, so deploys don't need GitHub to be up.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 9 days ago.

Points: 260
Comments: 129
Best rank: #3
Posted: 2026-11-04 by kevcampb
Category: DevOps & infra

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