Comment by nightpool

8 hours ago

Getting rid of Actions and Copilot and other secondary services almost halves Github's incident rate: https://i.imgur.com/XPcMIFr.png

I'm a big fan of Github Actions and I think people are often a little too harsh on it, but it's clear that it's sad that it's come at such a high cost to the platform's stability

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Normal_gaussian  7 hours ago

Actions aren't secondary to most paid GH users; and if they are down it usually means no deployments and no tests, which can often halt work.

isityettime  7 hours ago

GitHub Actions is really, really badly designed. The security model is fundamentally broken, the YAML hell is as bad as any, the log streaming lags like hell, they charge self-hosted runners for using their coordination plane, jobs queuing is really slow, and their software for actually running jobs is cursed and designed in a way that is practically hostile to self-hosting.

GitHub Actions is god-awful. Have you ever used any other CI tools?