Mitchell Hashimoto, GitHub user #1299 since 2008, is moving Ghostty off GitHub after daily outages made the platform unreliable for serious development work.
Key Takeaways
Hashimoto kept a month-long outage journal; nearly every day earned an X due to GitHub reliability failures blocking active work.
One GitHub Actions outage alone blocked PR review for ~2 hours; an April 28 Elasticsearch incident separately caused pull requests to fail.
Ghostty migrates incrementally to a new host; a read-only GitHub mirror stays, and personal projects remain on the platform for now.
Hashimoto is in active talks with multiple providers, both commercial and FOSS, with a phased dependency-removal plan underway.
The Register ties GitHub’s reliability slide to Microsoft’s AI feature push and the company’s own admission of Windows quality problems from forced AI injection.
