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GitHub's Historic Uptime
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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.
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Based on 5 sampled comments from this thread. Analyzed 2026-04-01.
- Concern: The analysis lacks context by not including the introduction dates of features, which skews the perception of downtime related to GitHub Actions.
- Concern: The graph's scale is misleading, making the downtime appear worse than it is by zooming in on a lower band of uptime.
- Concern: 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.