I mean, it is so unreliable that you would get better uptime than GitHub if you self-hosted your own Git repository instead of use GitHub. Even open-source projects like RedoxOS, GNOME, KDE, ReactOS, etc are doing just fine without worrying about GitHub's unreliability.

Better than 'centralizing everything to GitHub' as I predicted years ago. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

I worked at a small unicorn (~150 engineers when I started, 400 when I left) several years ago; we ran our own Github Enterprise solely for this reason.

It was a pain in the ass to set-up, but mostly hand-off to keep it running. I think we had roughly one degradation event a year (something went wrong with an update), and they were brief.

I love their product, I just wish I could rely on it. I hope they pause on new features (we don't need social on our code) and focus on stability.