GitHub's Historic Uptime
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March 31, 2026
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Summary
GitHub's historical uptime charts display monthly uptime statistics from 2016 to 2026. Users can visualize the platform's reliability trends over the specified period.
Coverage & discussions
Hacker News · damrnelson.github.io
Community discussions
Hacker News discussion ↗
Historical count: 5 · 5 saved in sample · Historical sample
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Community Sentiment
Concerns
- The analysis lacks context by not including the introduction dates of features, which skews the perception of downtime related to GitHub Actions.
- The graph's scale is misleading, making the downtime appear worse than it is by zooming in on a lower band of uptime.
- The narrative surrounding uptime before the Microsoft acquisition is overly simplistic, ignoring the fact that some products had no outages simply because they didn't exist yet.
