Comment by SirensOfTitan

In my experience, nothing is correlated more with downtime than code changes. Github has been pushing a lot more features since the Microsoft acquisition, and has felt down a lot more often since then.

There has been one major outage a month the last several months, with sprinklings of little outages (I recall webhooks down quite a lot). The cadence of these outages is rapidly changing my perception of Github as a reliable service.