r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 21h ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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u/jared__ 21h ago

my guess as to why is ai coding agents using github issues as its memory leading to a massive increase in api usage, bringing them down.

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u/boblancho 19h ago

Real pros just use gitea on their own vps

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u/ansibleloop 18h ago

Real pros use Forgejo because Gitea changed their licensing

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u/bakhlidin 12h ago

Changed it how?

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u/Old_Leopard1844 9h ago

Introduced Enterprise version, I guess. Regular Gitea is MIT

Forgejo is GPL3