The GitHub Outage Alternative Discussion Cycle

Description

A four-node cycle diagram on a white background, in classic circular-flowchart meme format, with black curved arrows connecting clockwise labels. Starting at the top: "there's a github outage"; right: "everyone starts talking alternatives"; bottom: "github comes back online"; left: "everyone stops talking alternatives," then the loop repeats. A small imgflip.com watermark sits in the bottom-left corner. The joke maps a recurring developer-industry pattern: a GitHub platform outage (such as the multi-hour August 17, 2026 incident that hit web, auth, APIs, Actions, and Copilot) briefly revives talk of GitLab, Bitbucket, or self-hosting, then vendor lock-in and restored `git push` kill the conversation until the next incident.