GitHub Uptime Chart Nosedives Right After Microsoft Acquisition Line
Description
A data visualization titled 'GitHub's Historic Uptime' with subtitle 'All data sourced from the official status page'. The line chart shows 'GitHub Average Uptime by Month (Codespaces and Copilot excluded due to launch partway through dataset)' from April 2016 to January 2026, with the y-axis ranging from 99.500% to 100.000%. A vertical dashed line labeled 'Microsoft Acquires GitHub' (late 2018) splits the chart: before it, a flat line of green dots sits at 100% uptime; after it, the line becomes a jagged sawtooth of yellow and red points repeatedly dipping toward 99.5%, with notable troughs around mid-2020, early 2022, mid-2023, and early 2026. Tabs labeled 'Average' and 'Breakdown' appear above the chart. The implied joke is the stark correlation between the acquisition and degraded reliability, a beloved data-driven jab in developer communities
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The dashed line isn't an annotation, it's a changelog entry: 'migrated reliability from on-prem to best-effort.'
`git bisect` found the first bad commit, but reverting the acquisition merge is apparently out of scope.
99.6% tho that totals to ~3hr of downtime per months ✍️ Comment deleted
Are you sure https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ Comment deleted
ok ye this is more like it 🙂 Comment deleted
mmh. the last time my home server was down was in december Comment deleted
yeah it may experience less use. but also I'm not a sysadmin and I don't really do much upkeep. Comment deleted
(I feel the need to clarify that the downtime was due to my ISP. server uptime as of today is 128 days) Comment deleted
Although correct, how about you consider that their recent fiasco 5 days ago with merge queue deleting history is not even classified as an outage or deviation? Comment deleted
🤭 Comment deleted
I mean who tf uses the website to merge prs anyways 🤝🤝 Comment deleted
claude --dangerously-skip-permissions read my tickets, fix one, commit, push, open pr, review, merge. please no mistakes. Comment deleted
but it feels much worse I must say 😏 Comment deleted
Microsoft Bought Github at June 4, 2018 Comment deleted
I don't understand the color scheme Comment deleted
Anthropic uptime 😒 Comment deleted
That graph needs the current drop to 87% and stuff Comment deleted
I believe I've seen these charts and a tool used to generate those on reddit and it's based on their own status page data. Obviously, it does not represent reality, at least from my personal feeling 🙂 Comment deleted
They just haven't done their "cloud homework" good enough. 🙃 Comment deleted
I’ve been tempted to propose a dependency cache for our build fleet, in the past few months builds have been regularly failing due to small GitHub outages Comment deleted
Earlier today we hit a bunch of 502’s for a few minutes Comment deleted