Fireship: GitHub Can't Keep Its Servers Up — 907K Views as Developer Exodus Begins
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Fireship's video covering GitHub's reliability crisis hit 907K views, documenting 48 major outages in 12 months including a merge-queue regression that silently reverted commits across 658 repositories. Mitchell Hashimoto (HashiCorp co-founder) publicly pulled Ghostty off GitHub after 18 years, calling it 'no longer a place for serious work.' GitHub acknowledged 'architectural coupling' and inability to shed load from misbehaving clients as root causes.