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After 6 years of this nonsense of "centralizing everything on GitHub", it is not a good idea at all.
You might as well self host like I said before [0].
This is no surprise given standard Microsoft operating procedure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
Their MO was to court an executive and sell second-rate tools to them before the people who had to use them had a chance to say anything. It doesn't matter how much evidence you can provide to the contrary, once the million dollar deal is signed, you are going to be tasked with finding reasons to say that your executive was shrewd for buying this pile of junk and unfulfilled promises, and not an insane idiot sucking away your job satisfaction as fast as they can.
They did a lot of deals based on how their products would have features their competitors already have 'soon' when they haven't even started them, and a long track record of taking 3 major releases to get from something to good, and then breaking everything again by doing a 4th major release that re-imagined everything and made it horrible again.
I'm not going to claim that Apple was or is a panacea. Apple doesn't use vaporware which is big, and their Cycle of Awful is 2 releases instead of 3. You could afford to skip 1 waiting for the next even-numbered version, instead of being 2 versions behind and getting pressed to upgrade.
If the scheduling was self hosted it would be inexcusable but you can always just connect whatever you want to webhooks.
They have a strong motivation (self preservation) to continue to misunderstand the problem. If they did what is best for us, then we could avoid a substantial fraction of all GH subscriptions by using a FOSS tool to hit the Pareto frontier by replicating just enough GH services to watch commits and PRs.
Sitting on Github these days is the same as sticking to twitter a decade ago, expect next mecha hitler, I suppose.
Aug 06, 2026 - 16:27 UTC - Update - Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 06, 2026 - 16:19 UTC - Update - Pages is operating normally.
Also, doesn't even have RAG offering.
Or has Microsoft made sure (through Windows licensing terms and pricing) that it's not possible to compete with their own CI offering?
Edit: CircleCI seems to offer 750 minutes/month (whereas GitHub offers 1000 minutes/month).
Once this goes in, I'd expect to see 89%, which is zero nines. (I'd like to say, "a new low!", but sadly we've had this before)