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GitHub Is Down
- theandrewbailey 2y agoI just tried to download Peazip, and immediately came here to check if 'this is just me'. Glad I'm not the only one.
- xenospn 2y agoIt was me. Sorry. I just merged a PR and down it went :/
- khaledh 2y agoEverything is slow. It takes several seconds to load any page, submit a comment, etc.
- peterldowns 2y agoI'm seeing issues with repo pages entirely (getting Unicorn "We couldn't respond to your request in time" errors) but the status page hasn't updated to show that yet.
- cristaloleg 2y agoYep, PRs and Issues are affected https://www.githubstatus.com/ https://www.githubstatus.com/
- malfist 2y agoThat is literally the link submitted here
- pera 2y agoI can't even SSO into one of our orgs because of 500s/timeouts
- fron 2y agoYeah SSO is down for me too
- sodapopcan 2y agoActions are clearly affected too but not represented on the status page.
- alexnewman 2y agoI blame ai
- ahofmann 2y agoIn a universe, where Obi-Wan Kenobi is a developer: "I felt a great disturbance in the workflow, as if millions of requests suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
- bigfatfrock 2y agoWho's going to kick off the holy war around self hosting?
- cropcirclbureau 2y agoHosting GitLab is not fun but anyways, M$ can still suck it.
- zaruvi 2y agoNot Onedev or Forgejo, though it could get tricky depending on what features you require.
- duxup 2y agoHonestly, sounds like a lot of work and I'm not sure I get much benefit, or even less downtime. I don't know about others but for me github is hardly a service that I'm sweating moment to moment uptime. My apps are still running and so on.
- reddalo 2y agoSpeaking of self hosting, Codeberg [1] is great. It's open and it looks and behaves pretty much like GitHub (unlike GitLab). [1] https://codeberg.org/ https://codeberg.org/
- diggan 2y agoSeconded. Hosting FOSS on a platform that isn't FOSS itself and run by a for-profit company who tried to work against FOSS for so long (Microsoft) doesn't make much sense to me. Instead, we should dogfood the FOSS ecosystem on a platform that is FOSS itself, and run as a non-profit. Codeberg, for better or worse, is the best platform for this today.
- mr_mitm 2y agoDid you mean to say Forgejo? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Codeberg is simply hosting a Forgejo instance for you, so not exactly self hosting.
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- tovej 2y agoIt's not just PRs and issues, my build systems are breaking because I can't download tarballs for dependencies from github.
- flyinghamster 2y agoOne thing I started doing a few years ago is that, any time I check out a git repo, whether it's on github or anywhere else, is clone it to my NAS and then clone from there to whatever I'm building it on. Aside from guarding against losing dependencies to outages (or from being yanked), it can be handy for guarding against my own fat fingers, and for making sure that the same version is running on multiple systems.
- sixthDot 2y agomeh. As usual that will be fixed within the 10 to 600 mins.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoDirect incident link: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nm83zrdky73y https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nm83zrdky73y
- shafyy 2y agoI feel like it's not only GitHub... Slack is very slow, too.
- smitelli 2y agoI've been getting a couple generic Cloudflare 521 responses across a weird mix of big and not-big sites this morning. Things have felt a little off.
- h1fra 2y agoFirst incident of the year for github :tada:
- kevlened 2y agoThere were others of varying severity: https://www.githubstatus.com/history https://www.githubstatus.com/history At one point all git operations were down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691184
- upheaval7276 2y agoI honestly can't believe how unreliable Github is. Outages are commonplace. It boggles my mind how nothing has been done to address the reliability regressions that have been creeping in ever since MS took over.
- kalleboo 2y agoSeems like it's back for me (and slow.. and now down again)
- japhyr 2y agoThere's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation. GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to. And when I have to for a project, it slows me down noticeably. I thought I was alone in this, but asking around I found that this is a common frustration among developers I communicate regularly with.
- RohMin 2y agoThat's actually a really interesting way to leverage that feature. Have you found this easier than other services built specifically for this use case?
- japhyr 2y agoI've tried other tools. But I'm on GitHub most days, so it's been a seamless way to keep track of some things that would otherwise disappear into a calendar, or some tool that I don't use as often.
- jrochkind1 2y agoI am not experiencing a full outage right now, but I am experiencing very slow (spinner) and flakey (error that works again on repeat). So perhaps it's the same problem, that's been getting more prevalent until it was noticeable by monitoring. One can hope!
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- simonw 2y agoI do the same - I've been running so many non-software things out of private GitHub Issues. I even have a simple system for creating a new issue every day to use as a personal TODO list, described here: https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/daily-planner https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/daily-planner I've noticed everything feeling a whole lot less snappy and responsive over the past few days - ironically I think it's because they've done a major rewrite of the frontend presumably with the aim of making it more snappy and responsive!
- ferriswil 2y agoMaybe we can spend this downtime researching self-hosting options
- lawrjone 2y agoThe industry made a general decision after ZIRP ended to deprioritise availability after years of historic levels of engineering investment. It's no surprise we're now feeling those effects but damn, GitHub and other services like Slack have been really bad lately.
- diggan 2y agoOr, GitHub used to favor stability back in the day, and there wasn't a lot of changes. People were complaining that GitHub didn't "improve" enough day-to-day, so after the Microsoft purchase, Microsoft started forcing GitHub to add more features, stability be damned. Most outages are caused not by stuff just randomly breaking, but updates/upgrades going wrong. If you try to increase the output of new features/changes to a platform, you're bound to have more outages and downtime if you aren't more careful than before. Microsoft, who never really excelled at engineering, to the surprise of absolutely everyone, choose adding features over stability and since years back, we're seeing the consequences of that choice.
- lawrjone 2y agoI'm not totally certain you can attribute it to this. I know there's a bunch of work going on to migrate things into Azure after the MS acquisition but it feels like more of an industry trend that we cut engineering spend at the cost (often) of lower quality output and outages like these. GitHub laid off 10% of their staff in 2023 and like you say, won't have slowed down to account for that. Ignoring all that though... other than Copilot, what big feature changes have you seen in GitHub? My experience of using their product has been broadly unchanged for years.
- diggan 2y ago> My experience of using their product has been broadly unchanged for years. Compared to how fast/slow they were moving 2012-2018, they're moving at blazing speed now. It feels like every time I open GitHub now, there are new features/changes and "Beta" available stuff. The platform is almost completely different today than it was in 2018, for better or worse.
- rvz 2y agoThis continues to be a regular thing for the past 5 years of outages and I've lost count of the many outages that GitHub continues to have since calling it. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
- rcleveng 2y agoeven the main github.com page seems down for me now (also getting the unicorn that others saw on their repo)
- cjonas 2y agoBitbucket was down for a few hours a week ago and 0 fuss was made about it in the media. Atlassian stock actually went up over the ourage
- jeffbee 2y agoBecause literally nobody uses it.
- diggan 2y agoBesides projects/companies/people stuck on Bitbucket, is anyone actually voluntary using Bitbucket? I remember using it back when I was poor and it was the only choice for hosted free private repositories, but the rest of the platform was actively worse in basically every way compared to the alternatives.
- crest 2y agoPun intended?
- brunocroh 2y agoIf I'm not wrong, this is the third week in a row with GitHub incidents, isn't it?
- floydian10 2y agoThe incidents history page is really damning. I didn't realize it gotten so bad
- hedora 2y agoWork was impacted by a few outages that they didn’t report there.
- dexcs 2y agoI think that's deepseek striking back.
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- adhamsalama 2y agoWhy don't they make the AI fix it? Are they stupid?
- hedora 2y agoThe last few days, the “create pr” screen kept hanging for me. I figured out I could reload it, click “create”, grab a coffee, and then come back and it’d be at the next screen. Maybe it’s time to learn their CLI (and then patiently wait for work to switch to another git service).
- G1N 2y agoThey're saying PRs and issues but I can't access github.com or github oauth for logging into external services. Need to migrate our org off of using github auth for anything critical I think, this is twice so far this year that we've had these issues.
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