We use other runners (Blacksmith), and it hasn't helped, still hard down all day long. Brutal outage.
As a side note, I started getting these symptoms (actions staying queued forever or not running at all) at 5pm PDT yesterday, intermittently. And definitely full outage by 8:30pm PDT. So for sure full outage for 7 hours and counting, even if you use other runners, and I strongly believe partial outage for ~15.5+ hrs before that, even if it hasn't been acknowledged by GitHub yet.
Yeah, that’s brutal. And really interesting that you were seeing the symptoms intermittently for 15+ hours before the full outage.
You should check out Avrea — they’re building around exactly this problem, with a lot more control and reliability than relying entirely on GitHub Actions. New player, but insanely fast. You can even move your existing runners over with one line, so pretty easy to try.
As a side note, I started getting these symptoms (actions staying queued forever or not running at all) at 5pm PDT yesterday, intermittently. And definitely full outage by 8:30pm PDT. So for sure full outage for 7 hours and counting, even if you use other runners, and I strongly believe partial outage for ~15.5+ hrs before that, even if it hasn't been acknowledged by GitHub yet.