I was just thinking that Github stayed fairly consistent and Bitbucket didn't really challenge it on features, and then Gitlab came in, shipped loads of popular features and lots of CI functionality, and Github has been delivering a lot of new features a lot faster ever since really, so I think Microsoft acquisition is quite possibly not a root cause of downtime changes.
It's also worth noting that downtime and issues caused during updates in self-hosted Github are significant. I have experienced them, and I guess the main difference is actually that you can schedule the risk, rather than accept it arbitrarily which has positives but comes at significant cost too.
It's also worth noting that downtime and issues caused during updates in self-hosted Github are significant. I have experienced them, and I guess the main difference is actually that you can schedule the risk, rather than accept it arbitrarily which has positives but comes at significant cost too.