It shows 98.3% for actions for me

https://ibb.co/PsMkpJFY

99.5% uptime is nothing significant...

Yeah but it's sufficient for the largest part of CI needs. Most people are making CRUD apps, 6 9s reliability is not required there.

not really, I've ran into Github Action downtime and you can't run tests or anything so either you wait or you just let stuff merge

and again don't know how this is acceptable in 2026, for a paid CI service

and I'm not talking about 6 9s, I mean, 99.5% is terrible

A 99.5 means over one year you will need to wait about 40 hours total for the issue to be solved. What kind of high pressure crud app are you making where this is a problem?

we have technology, 99.5% is embarrassing for a company like Microsoft

it's 2026, not 2016

and that 40 hr may be that over 40 days you just have to randomly stop working if you depend on GHA for something

and why are other services not struggling like this?

I never said I paid, I was referring to my opensource repos.