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title: "Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph"
description: "!https://red-squares.cian.lol/"
date: 2026-05-07
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  - thought
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      <div class="embed-card-title">Red Squares — the GitHub outage graph</div>
      <div class="embed-card-description">A satirical contribution graph: red squares track GitHub.com platform outages instead of green squares tracking commits.</div>
      <div class="embed-card-meta">red-squares.cian.lol</div>
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yet another interesting visualization of github outages.  These guys are getting raked over the coals.  It really sucks to see.  Not quite tears to my eyes [mitchelh](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579).  But it feels like a core part of opensource has been dying for a few years now and is now getting ripped to shreds.  The central location for open source is becoming more fragmented and I don't see a path to where it ever gets any better.