Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?

Some actions that have been running fine for over an year, have started throwing random transient errors that are fixed with a few retries for me since the past couple of months and I am not liking the new diff UI

The core git hosting has been solid for me, but Actions has been noticeably flakier in recent months. More random runner timeouts, longer queue times for larger runners, and occasional runs that just silently hang.

The frustrating part isn't the outages themselves — it's that the feedback loop for debugging them is so slow. A step fails, you read logs, make a guess, push, wait 5 minutes for the run to get to the same point, and repeat. There's no way to inspect the state of a runner mid-pipeline or retry a single step without re-running the whole workflow.

Reliability issues hurt more when your only debugging tool is "push and pray" (im a recovering vc)

You're certainly not alone, though it's not that much worse than usual over the last 5 years https://telliott.me/posts/is-github-getting-less-reliable/

I only use the source code repositories and have had little trouble in the last few months except for that time there was a network partition.

Actions is rather disappointing

I've not had a problem

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more shitty code generated by AI, untested, on a “trust me bro” basis