It goes down every month like I said before [0]. The last time this happened was 2 days ago [1] then weeks ago [2] and it is evident that it is falling apart in front of us.
First, it was the RSA key leak in [1][3], then the site's key expired causing down time again [2] and now this.
I don't think anyone can tell me with a straight face that GitHub was any more reliable or better when Microsoft acquired it. It is now worse off.
Nothing has changed except for more outages and downtime.
So so reliable. /s
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35004629
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295216
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35003741
[3] https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-k...
NB: GitHub was purchased by MS 5 years ago. All these events are in the last month.
It's apparant that it wasn't without issues prior to acquisition (e.g. a quick search for GitHub issues prior to 2018 gives this: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/github-goes-down-and-takes...) - reporting issues in 2017, 2015, and 2012.
I don't have the data to comment on whether it was better before or after MS acquisition, but would suggest this isn't the best sample size to base any conclusions on.