Meme scoreboard tracking consecutive incident-free days on GitHub, pulling from GitHub Status History.
Key Takeaways
Tracks a single rolling count of days without a GitHub incident, framed as a high score challenge.
Data sourced directly from GitHub’s public status history page.
Framing implies GitHub incidents are frequent enough to make streaks notable.
Hacker News Comment Review
Commenters are split: some defend GitHub engineers as overworked stewards of critical infrastructure, others see reliability failures as a legitimate business continuity risk for enterprise users.
A recurring theme is self-hosting as a practical exit: Forgejo and bare-bones PHP Git viewers like TreeTrek are cited as tested alternatives.
Skepticism exists about the single aggregate number: GitHub’s scale makes one incident metric misleading, similar to collapsing all AWS services into one uptime figure.
Notable Comments
@reilly3000: GitHub Enterprise cloud reliability issues are pushing teams to evaluate on-premises migration.
@mproud: Claims GitHub commits are up 14x year-over-year, adding context for why incidents may be increasing.
