https://www.githubstatus.com/
This is as of 19:58 UTC / 11:58 PST on 2-Feb-2026
Information
Active - Virtual Machines and dependent services - Service management issues in multiple regions
Impact statement: As early as 19:46 UTC on 2 February 2026, we are aware of an ongoing issue causing customers to receive error notifications when performing service management operations - such as create, delete, update, scaling, start, stop - for Virtual Machines (VMs) across multiple regions. These issues are also causing impact to services with dependencies on these service management operations - including Azure Arc Enabled Servers, Azure Batch, Azure DevOps, Azure Load Testing, and GitHub. For details on the latter, please see https://www.githubstatus.com.
Current status: We have determined that these issues were caused by a recent configuration change that affected public access to certain Microsoft‑managed storage accounts, used to host extension packages. We are actively working on mitigation, including updating configuration to restore relevant access permissions. We have applied this update in one region so far, and are assessing the extent to which this mitigates customer issues. Our next update will be provided by 22:30 UTC, approximately 60 minutes from now.
( Or if you prefer https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xwn6hjps36ty )
They can have weekly outages, and the FOSS products would still be forced to be on GitHub.
https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...
proof here. The top are taken by chinese educational repos. Elastic Search and Spring Boot are the only projects actually used by anyone in the top 10. But why would I trust the stars for spring boot over the fact its used in every java shop on the planet?
- number of contributors
- open issues
- merged and unmerged PRs
- commit history
- the code
- project governance
- I don't look at GitHub Stars
- I don't use Facebook
- I am never persuaded by advertisement
- I can build Dropbox over a weekend
Indeed. And I would say it is not just social signals but even non-social authority signals.
E.g. how many other projects depend on this projects and how many downloads happen for its artifacts.
You can see some of these on package registries like npm and pypi where their authority signals help people choose between the right libraries.
I think they've just stopped caring about the consequences at this point, they know they have enough market dominance and lock-in that they can go down as often as they like.
Besides the frequent outages, GitHub is largely being left to rot because they're distracted by AI. Actions is a security catastrophe. I can't point to a single feature that they've shipped in the past year that pushes the bar.