Github lost at least one 9, if not two, since last year's "existential" migration to Azure.
I'm sympathetic to ops issues, and particularly sympathetic to ops issues that are caused by brain-dead corporate mandates, but you don't get to be an infrastructure company and have this uptime record.
It's extra galling that they advertise all the new buzzword laden AI pipeline features while the regular website and actions fail constantly. Academically I know that it's not the same people building those as fixing bugs and running infra, but the leadership is just clearly failing to properly steer the ship here.
Is there any reason why Github needs 99.99% uptime? You can continue working with your local repo.
I'm pretty sure they don't GAF about GH uptime as long as they can keep training models on it (0.5 /s), but Azure is revenue friction so might be a real problem.
Something this week about "oops we need a quality czar": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903802