alt Hacker NewsIn all fairness, the features expanded substantially after the acquisition so there's are a lot more components that can experience downtime. Pre-acquisition, github was a fairly simple code repository with issues bolted on. Actions, Dependabot, Codespaces, Advanced Security, Package Registry, Copilot, etc. all came after the acquisition and probably involve much more overhead than what github was prior to the acquisition. It basically went from code hosting platform where machines are sitting idle when pushes and pulls aren't happening to a fully integrated developer ecosystem. Any one of those things experiencing degraded performance is going to show up on an uptime chart.
True, but you could argue whether these were good product decisions especially given they've probably contributed to the cost of running the platform and the instability substantially.
(Github did probably want a native CI implementation but I'm not really sure Actions was the way to do it. It seems so needlessly complex to me, not to mention the massive security issues. The rest of those features are just far from something I'd ever use so I don't even really know how to comment on them)