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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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arandomhuman · 1786035573 · focus · HN ↗
I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.
1. inigyou · 1786038849 · focus · HN ↗
  GitHub implements self hosted runners by running a normal runner that passes the environment to your runner and then polls it. That's why they cost as much as the smallest GitHub-hosted runner.
  This is no surprise given standard Microsoft operating procedure - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
  1. exochrono · 1786039159 · focus · HN ↗
    they walked that back for now at least - self-hosted gh runners are still free: <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-actions" rel="nofollow">https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/...
    inigyou · 1786039575 · focus · HN ↗
    Well, they're still implemented that way.

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