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GitHub is down again
- huntertwo 8mo agoMicroslop strikes again!
- MattIPv4 8mo agoStatus page currently says the only issue is notification delays, but I have been getting a lot of Unicorn pages while trying to access PRs. Edit: Looks like they've got a status page up now for PRs, separate from the earlier notifications one: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9 Edit: Now acknowledging issues across GitHub as a whole, not just PRs.
- salmon 8mo agoYep, trying to access commit details is just returning the unicorn page for me
- priteau 8mo agoThey added the following entry: Investigating - We are investigating reports of impacted performance for some GitHub services. Feb 09, 2026 - 15:54 UTC But I saw it appear just a few minutes ago, it wasn't there at 16:10 UTC.
- priteau 8mo agoAnd just now: Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests Feb 09, 2026 - 16:19 UTC
- rozenmd 8mo agoYeah I've been seeing a lot of 500 errors myself, latency seems to have spiked too: https://github.onlineornot.com/ https://github.onlineornot.com/
- mephos 8mo agogit operations are down too.
- twistedpair 8mo agoI cannot approve PRs because the JSON API is returning HTML error pages. Something is really hosed over there.
- tapoxi 8mo agoIs it really that much better than alternatives to justify these constant outages?
- vvilliamperez 8mo agoYou can self-host GitHub enterprise.
- riffic 8mo agoself-host your own services. There are a lot of alternatives to GitHub.
- dsagent 8mo agoWe're starting to have that convo in our org. This is just getting worse and worse for Github. Hosting .git is not that complicated of a problem in isolation.
- bigfishrunning 8mo agoNo, but it has momentum left over from when it was much better. The Microsoft downslide will continue untill there's no one left
- tacker2000 8mo agoIm using Bitbucket for years with no issues.
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- albelfio 8mo agohttps://www.githubstatus.com/ https://www.githubstatus.com/
- mholt 8mo agoOf course they're down while I'm trying to address a "High severity" security bug in Caddy but all I'm getting is a unicorn when loading the report. (Actually there's 3 I'm currently working, but 2 are patched already, still closing the feedback loop though.) I have a 2-hour window right now that is toddler free. I'm worried that the outage will delay the feedback loop with the reporter(s) into tomorrow and ultimately delay the patches. I can't complain though -- GitHub sustains most of my livelihood so I can provide for my family through its Sponsors program, and I'm not a paying customer. (And yet, paying would not prevent the outage.) Overall I'm very grateful for GitHub.
- gostsamo 8mo agohave you considered moving or having at least an alternative? asking as someone using caddy for personal hosting who likes to have their website secure. :)
- indigodaddy 8mo agoYou are talking to the maintainer of caddy :) Edit- oh you probably meant an alternative to GitHub perhaps..
- gostsamo 8mo agono worries, misunderstandings happen.
- Nextgrid 8mo ago> have you considered moving or having at least an alternative Not who you're responding to, but my 2 cents: for a popular open-source project reliant on community contributions there is really no alternative. It's similar to social media - we all know it's trash and noxious, but if you're any kind of public figure you have to be there.
- jeltz 8mo agoSeveral quite big projects have moved to Codeberg. I have no idea how it has worked out for them.
- showerst 8mo agoIf you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no. If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an all-time own goal in our industry.
- panarky 8mo agoGithub lost at least one 9, if not two, since last year's "existential" migration to Azure.
- arianvanp 8mo agoThey didn't migrate yet.
- Krutonium 8mo agoFucking REALLY?!
- panarky 8mo agoMigrations of Actions and Copilot to Azure completed in 2024. Pages and Packages completed in 2025. Core platform and databases began in October 2025 and are in progress, with traffic split between the legacy Github data center and Azure.
- ifwinterco 8mo agoThat's probably partly why things have got increasingly flaky - until they finish there'll be constant background cognitive load and surface area for bugs from the fact everything (especially the data) is half-migrated
- panarky 8mo agoYou'd think so, and we don't know about today's incident yet, but recent Github incidents have been attributed specifically to Azure, and Azure itself has had a lot of downtime recently that lasts for many hours.
- porise 8mo agoTake it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.
- alimbada 8mo agoDo you also post "Take it away from $OWNER" every time your open source software breaks?
- porise 8mo agoWhat antitrust issue does my open source software have?
- alimbada 8mo agoWhat does antitrust have to do with the GitHub services downtime?
- fsflover 8mo agoIt regularly breaks the workflow for thousands of FLOSS projects.
- that_guy_iain 8mo agoIt does? Do you know git is a dvcs? And therefore you're able to continue working without an internet connection or a service provider being up? It delays the code review process but doesn't break it. I get it that you want it to be 100% up, but let's be serious your FLOSS projects probably break more stuff than GitHub being down does.
- fsflover 8mo agoHow about Issue management?
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- hit8run 8mo agoThey should have just scaled a proper Rails monolith instead of this React, Java whatever mixed mess. But hey probably Microslop is vibecoding everything to Rust now!
- edoceo 8mo agoTeam is doing resume driven development
- sama004 8mo ago3 incidents in feb already lmao
- gpmcadam 8mo ago> Monday Beyond a meme at this point
- wrxd 8mo agoCopilot, what have you done again?
- thinkindie 8mo agoit's Monday therefore Github is down.
- ilikerashers 8mo agoYeap, getting this for the last 20 minutes. Everything green on their status pages.
- RomanPushkin 8mo agoLooks like AI replacement of engineering force in action.
- alexeiz 8mo agoYou're absolutely right! Sorry I deleted your database.
- gunapologist99 8mo agoI can help you restore from backups if you will tell me where you backed it up. You did back it up, right? Right before you ran me with `--allow-dangerously-skip-permissions` and gave me full access to your databases and S3 buckets?
- jpalawaga 8mo agoYou're right! Let's just quickly promote your only read replica to the new primar---oops!
- whatevermom3 8mo agoI was laughing really hard until I remembered it happened to me a few months ago and I wasn't having fun at that time.
- guluarte 8mo agoGood news: I optimized your infrastructure costs to zero. Bad news: I did it by deleting everything. You're welcome.
- SAI_Peregrinus 8mo agoI'm very sorry I deleted your `backups` bucket, despite being specifically instructed not to touch the `backups` bucket.
- lelanthran 8mo ago> I can help you restore from backups if you will tell me where you backed it up. "Whoops, now that one is nuked too. You have any more backups I can practice my shell commands on?"
- Culonavirus 8mo agoAzure Screen of Death?
- esafak 8mo agoKids don't even know this. Lucky them.
- coffeebeqn 8mo agoThey will soon given MS direction
- thesmart 8mo agoIt's really pathetic for however many trillions MSFT is valued. If we had a government worth anything, they ought to pass a law that other competitors be provided mirror APIs so that the entire world isn't shut off from source code for a day. We're just asking for a world wide disaster.
- MattIPv4 8mo agoLooks like they've got a status page up now for PRs, separate from the earlier notifications one: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9 Edit: Now acknowledging issues across GitHub as a whole, not just PRs.
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- CodingJeebus 8mo agoDo they publish proper post-mortems? I feel like that's gotta be the bare minimum nowadays for such critical digital infrastructure. The new-fangled copilot/agentic stuff I do read about on HN is meaningless to me if the core competency is lost here.
- mentalgear 8mo agoSeems like MS copilot is vibe-ing it again ! Some other major cloud provider outages come to mind that never happened before the "vibe" area.
- alfanick 8mo agoOh! It's not my GitLab@Hetzner that's not working, it's GitHub. Just when I decided to opensource my project.
- rvz 8mo agoWell done for self-hosting.
- thewhitetulip 8mo agoHas anyone noticed that in the past year we have seen a LOT of outages?
- thesmart 8mo agoYes. Feels like every other week.
- thewhitetulip 8mo agoThat goes against all the gushing posts about how AI is great. I use all the frontier models and sure they're a bit helpful But I don't understand if they're that good why are we getting an outage every other week? AWS had an outage unsolved for about 9+ hrs!
- mikert89 8mo agopretty clear that companies like microsoft are actually terrible at engineering, their core products were built 30 years ago. any changes now are generally extremely incremental and quickly rolled back with issue. trying to innovate at github shows just how bad they are.
- shimman 8mo agoIt's not just MSFT, it's all of big tech. They basically run as a cartel, destroy competition through illegal means, engage in regulatory capture, and ensure their fiefdoms reign supreme. All the more reason why they should be sliced and diced into oblivion.
- jpalawaga 8mo agoto be fair, git is one of the most easily replaced pieces of tech. just add a new git remote and push. less so for issues and and pulls, but at least your dev team/ci doesn't end up blocked.
- mikert89 8mo agoyeah i have worked at a few FAANG, honestly stunning how entrenched and bad some of the products are. internally, they are completely incapable of making any meaningful product changes, the whole thing will break
- swiftcoder 8mo agoIt's a general curse of anything that becomes successful at a BigCorp. The engineers who build the early versions were folks at the top of their field, and compensated accordingly. Those folks have long since moved on, and the whole thing is maintained by a mix of newcomers and whichever old hands didn't manage to promote out, while the PMs shuffle the UX to justify everyones salary...
- mikert89 8mo agoim not even sure id say they were "top", id more just say its a different type of engineer, that either doesnt get promoted to a big impact role at a place like microsoft, or leaves on their own.
- blibble 8mo agopresumably slophub's now dogfooding GitHub Agentic Workflows?
- ruined 8mo agotangled is up B]
- zurfer 8mo agoto be fair, i think usage has increased a lot because of coding agents and some things that worked well for now can't scale to the next 10x level.
- jcdcflo 8mo agoMaybe they need to sort things out for people who pay through the nose for it cause I ain't comforted by vibe coders slowing us down.
- iamsyr 8mo agoThe next name after Cloudflare
- razwall 8mo agoThey're overwhelmed with all the vibecoded apps people are pushing after watching the Super Bowl.
- ddtaylor 8mo agoTheir network stack is ran by OpenAI and is now advertising cool new ways for us to stay connected in a fun way with Mobile Co (TM).
- ecshafer 8mo agoWell its a day that ends in Y. Github is down so often now, especially actions, I am not sure how so many companies are still relying on them.
- bigfishrunning 8mo agoMigration costs are a thing
- Zambyte 8mo agoSo are the costs of downtime.
- cedws 8mo agoScrew GitHub, seriously. This unreliability is not acceptable. If I’m in a position where I can influence what code forge we use in future I will do everything in my power to steer away from GitHub.
- edoceo 8mo agoForge feature parity is easy to find. But GH has that discover ability feature and the social queues from stars/forks. One solution I see is (eg) internal forge (Gitlab/gitea/etc) and then mirrored to GH for those secondary features. Which is funny. If GH was better we'd just buy their better plan. But as it stands we buy from elsewhere and just use GH free plans.
- regularfry 8mo agoStars are just noise. All they tell you is how online the demographics of that ecosystem are. Mirroring is probably the way forward.
- coffeebeqn 8mo agoEvery company I’ve worked in the last 10 years used GH for the internal codebase hosting , PRs and sometimes CI. Discoverability doesn’t really come into picture for those users and you can still fork things from GitHub even if you don’t host your core code infra on it
- anon7000 8mo agoYep. As someone in a similar position to influence this, I’ll also be pushing for at least significant discounts in our contract. The challenge with migrating off for enterprise is going to be integrations & compliance. There are dozens of options that replicate the core PR workflow that people use, and it’s probably fairly easy to migrate that. The hard part is the hundreds of things that hook into GitHub that don’t have a simple migration, even internal tooling. So it just turns into a pretty big project.
- elcapitan 8mo agoMaybe we should post when it's up
- ZpJuUuNaQ5 8mo agoIt's a funny coincidence - I pushed a commit adding a link to an image in the README.md, opened the repo page, clicked on the said image, and got the unicorn page. The site did not load anymore after that.
- thesmart 8mo agoCan we please demand that Github provide mirror APIs to competitors? We're just asking for an extinction-level event. "Oops, our AI deleted the world's open source." Any public source code hosting service should be able to subscribe to public repo changes. It belongs to the authors, not to Microsoft.
- munk-a 8mo agoThe history of tickets and PRs would be a major loss - but a beauty of git is that if at least one dev has the repo checked out then you can easily rehost the code history.
- 1313ed01 8mo agoIt would be nice to have some sort of widespread standard for doing issue tracking, reviews, and CI in the repo, synced with the repo to all its clones (and fully from version-managed text-files and scripts) rather than in external, centralized, web tools.
- _flux 8mo agoMaking it even easier to snipe accidentally committed credentials?
- kgwxd 8mo agoNo, we can't. Hence Git. Use it the right way, or prepare for the fallout. Anyone looking for a good way to prepare for that, I suggest Git.
- small_model 8mo agoEvery repo usually has at least one local copy somewhere, worst would be few old repos disappear.
- prashantsengar 8mo agoYour comment led me to create this: https://github.com/prashantsengar/GitEcho https://github.com/prashantsengar/GitEcho
- jbpadgett 8mo ago3 outages in 3 months straight according to their own status history. https://www.githubstatus.com/history https://www.githubstatus.com/history
- hnthrowaway0315 8mo agoI wonder who left the team recently. Must be someone bagged with shadow knowledge. Or maybe they send devops/devs work to another continent.
- perdomon 8mo agoI think it's more likely the introduction of the ability to say "fix this for me" to your LLM + "lgtm" PR reviews. That or MS doing their usual thing to acquired products.
- arccy 8mo agonah, they're just showing us how to vibecode your way to success
- hnthrowaway0315 8mo agoIf the $$$ they saved > the $$$ they lose then yeah it is a success. Business only cares about $$$.
- collingreen 8mo agoDefinitely. The devil is in the details though since it's so damn hard to quantify the $$$ lost when you have a large opinionated customer base that holds tremendous grudges. Doubly so when it's a subscription service with effectively unlimited lifetime for happy accounts. Business by spreadsheet is super hard for this reason - if you try to charge the maximum you can before people get angry and leave then you're a tiny outage/issue/controversy/breach from tipping over the wrong side of that line.
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- retinaros 8mo agomigrating to azure kills businesses
- stefankuehnel 8mo agoYou can literally watch GitHub explode bit by bit. Take a look at the GitHub Status History; it's hilarious: https://www.githubstatus.com/history https://www.githubstatus.com/history.
- hnthrowaway0315 8mo agoSomeone should make a timeline chart from that, lol.
- stefankuehnel 8mo agoHaha, that would be awesome!
- gowld 8mo agoLight work for an LLM
- nozzlegear 8mo agoBut not Copilot.
- peartickle 8mo agoCopilot is shown as having policy issues in the latest reports. Oh my, the irony. Satya is like "look ma, our stock is dropping...", Gee I wonder why Mr!!
- jakub_g 8mo agohttps://updog.ai/status/github https://updog.ai/status/github
- mrshu 8mo agoHere it is. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
- danelski 8mo agoI wonder what's the value of having a dedicated X (formerly Twitter) status account post 2023 when people without account will see a mix of entries from 2018, 2024, and 2020 in no particular order upon opening it. Is it just there so everyone can quickly share their post announcing they're back?
- iamleppert 8mo agoGood thing we have LLM agents now. Before this kind of behavior was tolerable. Now it's pretty easy to switch over to using other providers. The threat of "but it will take them a lot of effort to switch to someone else" is getting less and less every day.
- camdenreslink 8mo agoAre we sure LLM agents aren't the cause of these increasing outages?
- an0malous 8mo agoI think this is an indicator of a broader trend where tech companies put less value on quality and stability and more value on shipping new features. It’s basically the enshittification of tech
- DetroitThrow 8mo agoGitHub downtime is going from once a month (unacceptable) to twice a month (what the fuck?)
- tigerlily 8mo agoSo, what're people's alt stack for replacing GitHub?
- akshitgaur2005 8mo agoCodeberg, Tangled, Radicle!
- throw_m239339 8mo agoWait a minute, isn't Git supposed to be... distributed?
- swiftcoder 8mo agoYeah, but things with "Hub" in their name don't tend to be very distributed
- esafak 8mo agoThanks for underscoring the beautiful oxymoron.
- arcologies1985 8mo agoIssues, CI, and downloads for built binaries aren't part of vanilla Git. CI in particular can be hard if you make a multi-platform project and don't want to have to buy a new mac every few years.
- swiftcoder 8mo agoProbably Worth taking an honest look at whether your CI could just be an SQS queue and a Mac mini running under your desk though
- arcologies1985 8mo agoFor my OSS work that is about $699 over my budget
- peab 8mo agoIs it just me, or are critical services like GitHub, AWS, Google, etc., down more often than they used to be these days?
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- JamesTRexx 8mo agoSorry, my fault. I tried to download a couple of CppCon presentations from their stash. Should have known better than to touch anything C++. ducks
- alexeiz 8mo agoThere are new slides? Here goes the rest of my work day.
- nusaru 8mo agoI look forward to the day that jjhub becomes available...
- pimpl 8mo agoWhat are good alternatives to GitHub for private repos + actions? I'm considering moving my company off of it because of reliablity issues.
- ramon156 8mo agoCodeberg is close to what i need
- theredbeard 8mo agoGitlab.com is the obvious rec.
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- Kelteseth 8mo agoGitlab.com. CI is super nice and easily self hostable.
- MYEUHD 8mo agoI heard that it's hard to maintain self-hosted Gitlab instances
- Kelteseth 8mo agoUhm no? We have been self-hosting Gitlab for 6 years now with monthly updates and almost zero issues, just apt update && apt upgrade.
- cortesoft 8mo agoNot really. About average in terms of infrastructure maintenance. Have been running our orgs instance for 5 years or so, half that time with premium and half the time with just the open source version, running on kubernetes... ran it in AWS at first, then migrated to our own infrastructure.
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- charles_f 8mo agoThat pink "Unicorn!" joke is something that should be reconsidered. When your services are down you're probably causing a lot of people a lot of stress ; I don't think it's the time to be cute and funny about it. EDIT: my bad, seems to be their server's name.
- aaronbrethorst 8mo agoI don't know if it's meant to be a joke, per se. They use (or used) the Unicorn server once upon a time: https://github.blog/news-insights/unicorn/ https://github.blog/news-insights/unicorn/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957986
- ihumanable 8mo agoI don't think it's a joke, it's the server that github runs on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(web_server) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(web_server)
- frou_dh 8mo agoOne of Reddit's cutesy error pages (presumably for Internal Server Error is similar) is an illustration that says "You broke reddit". I know it's a joke, but have wondered what effect that might have on a particularly anxiety-prone person who takes it literally and thinks they've done something that's taken the site down and inconvenienced millions of other people. Seems a bit dodgy for a mainstream site to assume all of its users have the dev knowledge to identify a joking accusation.
- Brian_K_White 8mo agoThat stupid "Aww, Snap!" message I think it's one of the browsers does.
- demothrowaway 8mo agoEven if it is their server name, I completely agree with your point. The image is not appropriate when your multi-billion revenue service is yet again failing to meet even a basic level of reliability, preventing people from doing their jobs and generally causing stress and bad feeling all round.
- dbingham 8mo agoGithub's two biggest selling points were its feature set (Pull Requests, Actions) and its reliability. With the latter no longer a thing, and with so many other people building on Github's innovations, I'm starting to seriously consider alternatives. Not something I would have said in the past, but when Github's outages start to seriously affect my ability to do my own work, I can no longer justify continuing to use them. Github needs to get its shit together. You can draw a pretty clear line between Microsoft deciding it was all in on AI and the decline in Github's service quality. So I would argue that for Github to gets its shit back together, it needs to ditch the AI and focus on high quality engineering.
- Tade0 8mo agoI don't know if it's related, but for the past week I've been getting pages cut off at some point, as if something closed the connection mid-transfer. Today, when I was trying to see the contribution timeline of one project, it didn't render.
- dmix 8mo agoWelcome to Microsoft Github
- feverzsj 8mo agoSeems Microsoft goes downhill after all in AI.
- aqme28 8mo agoThe saddest part to me is that their status update page and twitter are both out of date. I get a full 500 on github.com and yet all I see on their status page is an "incident with pull requests" and "copilot policy propagation delays."
- albelfio 8mo agohttps://www.githubstatus.com/ https://www.githubstatus.com/
- Hamuko 8mo agoI get the feeling that most of these GitHub downtimes are during US working hours, since I don't remember being impacted them during work. Only noticed it now as I was looking up a repo on my free time.
- seneca 8mo agoGitHub has a long history of being extremely unstable. They were down all the time, much like recently, several years ago. They seemed to stabilize quite a bit around the MS acquisition era, and now seem to be returning to their old instability patterns.
- byte_surgeon 8mo agoJust remove all that copilot nonsense and focus on uptime... I would like to push some code.
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- parvardegr 8mo agoDamn, I was also trying to push and deploy a critical bug fix that was needed within minutes.
- rvz 8mo agoWell unfortunately, you have to wait for GitHub to get back online to push that critical bug fix. If that were me, I would find that unacceptable. Self hosting would be a better alternative, as I said 5 years ago. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
- edverma2 8mo agoAnyone have alternatives to recommend? We will be switching after this. Already moved to self-hosted action runners and we are early-stage so switching cost is fairly low.
- akshitgaur2005 8mo agoCodeberg, if your product/project is open source, otherwise try out Tangled.org and Radicle!! Radicle is the most exciting out of these, imo!
- EToS 8mo agosorry all, i took a month off and then opened github.com
- 0xbadcafebee 8mo agoList of company-friendly managed-host alternatives? SSO, auditing, user management, billing controls, etc? I would love to pay Codeberg for managed hosting + support. GitLab is an ugly overcomplicated behemoth... Gitea offers "enterprise" plans but do they have all the needed corporate features? Bitbucket is a joke, never going back to that.
- arnvald 8mo agoGitHub is the new Internet Explorer 6. A Microsoft product so dominant in its category that it's going to hold everyone back for years to come. Just when open source development has to deal with the biggest shift in years and maintainers need a tool that will help them fight the AI slop and maintain the software quality, GitHub not only can't keep up with the new requirements, they struggle to keep their product running reliably. Paying customers will start moving off to GitLab and other alternatives, but GitHub is so dominant in open source that maintainers won't move anywhere, they'll just keep burning out more than before.
- CamT 8mo agoIt feels like GitHub's shift to these "AI writes code for you while you sleep!" features will appeal to a less technical crowd who lack awareness of the overall source code hosting and CI ecosystem and, combined with their operational incompetence of late (calling it how I see it), will see their dominance as the default source code solution for folks using it to maintain production software projects fade away. Hopefully the hobbyists are willing to shell out for tokens as much as they expect.
- ascendantlogic 8mo agoSo what's the moneyline on all these outages being the result of vibe-coded LLM-as-software-engineer/LLM-as-platform-engineer executive cost cutting mandates?
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- unboxingelf 8mo ago1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.
- petetnt 8mo agoGitHub has had customer visible incidents large enough to warrant status page updates almost every day this year (https://www.githubstatus.com/history https://www.githubstatus.com/history). This should not be normal for any service, even at GitHub's size. There's a joke that your workday usually stops around 4pm, because that's when GitHub Actions goes down every day. I wish someone inside the house cared to comment why the services barely stay up and what kinds of actions are they planning to do to fix this issue that's been going on years, but has definitely accelerated in the past year or so.
- huntaub 8mo agoIt's 100% because the number of operations happening on Github has likely 100x'd since the introduction of coding agents. They built Github for one kind of scale, and the problem is that they've all of a sudden found themselves with a new kind of scale. That doesn't normally happen to platforms of this size.
- data-ottawa 8mo agoA major platform lift and shift does not help. They are always incredibly difficult. There are probably tons of baked in URLs or platform assumptions that are very easy to break during their core migration to Azure.
- lelanthran 8mo ago> A major platform lift and shift does not help. ISTR that the lift-n-shift started like ... 3 years ago? That much of it was already shifted to Azure ... 2 years ago? The only thing that changed in the last 1 year (if my above two assertions are correct (which they may not be)) is a much-publicised switch to AI-assisted coding.
- LittleBox 8mo agoHow strange. We have that joke too in our office for Azure pipelines. Do they use the same agents perhaps?
- BhavdeepSethi 8mo agoI wonder if GH charges for the runners during their downtime. Last week lot of them would retry multiple times and then fail.
- rileymichael 8mo agothe incident has now expanded to include webhooks, git operations, actions, general page load + API requests, issues, and pull requests. they're effectively down hard. hopefully its down all day. we need more incidents like this to happen for people to get a glimpse of the future.
- swiftcoder 8mo agoAnd hey, its about the best excuse for not getting work done I can think of
- jcdcflo 8mo agoWe replaced everything except the git part because of reliability issues. Pages…gone Actions…gone KB…gone. Tickets…gone. Maybe they need to get more humans involved because GitHub is down at least once a week for a while now.
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- koreth1 8mo agoThe biggest thing tying my team to GitHub right now is that we use Graphite to manage stacked diffs, and as far as I can tell, Graphite doesn't support anything but GitHub. What other tools are people using for stacked-diff workflows (especially code review)? Gerrit is the other option I'm aware of but it seems like it might require significant work to administer.
- satya71 8mo agoI use git town. Fits my brain a lot better.
- yoyohello13 8mo agoAzure infra rock solid as always.
- whalesalad 8mo agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Microsuck https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Microsuck
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- run-run-forever 8mo agoNow Github pages are down
- run-run-forever 8mo agoI bet Microsoft did this...
- ChrisArchitect 8mo agoRelated incidents: Incident with Pull Requests https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9 Copilot Policy Propagation Delays https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/t5qmhtg29933 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/t5qmhtg29933 Incident with Actions https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/tkz0ptx49rl0 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/tkz0ptx49rl0 Degraded performance for Copilot Coding Agent https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qrlc0jjgw517 https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qrlc0jjgw517 Degraded Performance in Webhooks API and UI, Pull Requests https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/ffz2k716tlhx https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/ffz2k716tlhx
- ChrisArchitect 8mo agoIn addition: Notifications are delayed https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/54hndjxft5bx https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/54hndjxft5bx Incident with Issues, Actions and Git Operations https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
- patrick4urcloud 8mo agoi was right ... https://medium.com/@patrick.szymkowiak/github-is-falling-apart-why-2025-broke-the-developers-trust-8a2a5fb5b047 https://medium.com/@patrick.szymkowiak/github-is-falling-apa...
- QuiDortDine 8mo agoI'm always fascinated by these growth charts. Isn't everyone who needs GitHub already on GitHub? Are people migrating from GitLab? I don't get it!
- zingerlio 8mo agoI was wondering why my AUR packages won’t update, just my luck.
- semiinfinitely 8mo agoThey put too much AI in it bot enough engineering rigor
- romshark 8mo agoGitHub is slowly turning into the Deutsche Bahn of git providers.
- bigbuppo 8mo agoOn the plus side, it's git, so developers can at least get back to work without too much hassle as long as they don't need the CI/CD side of things immediately.
- guluarte 8mo agovibe coding too much?
- davidfekke 8mo agoI guess Bill Gates has a virus.
- petterroea 8mo agoWhen I was a summer intern 10 years ago I remember there without fail always being a day where GitHub was down, ever summer. Good times.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 8mo agoI am able to access github.com at 140.82.112.3 no problem I am able to access api.github.com at 20.205.243.168 no problem No problem with githubusercontent.com either
- bovermyer 8mo agoMeanwhile, Codeberg and Worktree are both online and humming along. Codeberg gets hit by a fair few attacks every year, but they're doing pretty well, given their resources. I am _really_ enjoying Worktree so far.
- simianwords 8mo agoMonolith looking like a good now?
- canterburry 8mo agoI wonder if the incident root cause analysis will point to vibe coding?
- adamcharnock 8mo agoWe've migrated to Forgejo over the last couple of weeks. We position ourselves[0] as an alternative to the big cloud providers, so it seemed very silly that a critical piece of our own infrastructure could be taken out by a GitHub or Azure outage. It has been a pretty smooth process. Although we have done a couple of pieces of custom development: 1) We've created a Firecracker-based runner, which will run CI jobs in Firecracker VMs. This brings the Foregjo Actions running experience much more closely into line with GitHub's environment (VM, rather than container). We hope to contribute this back shortly, but also drop me a message if this is of interest. 2) We're working up a proposal[1] to add environments and variable groups to Forgejo Actions. This is something we expect to need for some upcoming compliance requirements. I really like Forgejo as a project, and I've found the community to be very welcoming. I'm really hoping to see it grow and flourish :D [0]: https://lithus.eu https://lithus.eu, adam@ [1]: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/440 https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/440 PS. We are also looking at offering this as a managed service to our clients.
- cyberpunk 8mo agoWhy .eu if you're in London? Where are your servers located and who hosts them?
- adamcharnock 8mo agoWe have two entities. An EU one and a UK one. I'm based in Munich, servers are in Germany.
- kachapopopow 8mo agoI made this joke 10 hours ago: "I wonder if you opened https://github.com/claude https://github.com/claude in like 1000's of browsers / unique ips would it bring down github since it does seem to try until timeout" coincidence I think not!
- mrshu 8mo agoGitHub no longer publishes aggregate numbers so here they are parsed out. It looks like they are down to a single 9 at this point across all services: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
- gordonhart 8mo agoGreat project, thanks for building and sharing!
- jeltz 8mo agoDo I misunderstand or does your page count today's downtime as minor? I would not count the web UI being mostly unusable as minor. Does this mean GitHub understates how bad incidents are? Pr has your page just not yet been updated to include it?
- onionisafruit 8mo agoToday's isn't accounted for on that page yet
- onionisafruit 8mo agoIt's interesting to see that copilot has the worst overall. I use copilot completions constantly and rarely notice issues with it. I suspect incidents aren't added until after they resolve.
- nightpool 8mo agoCompletions run using a much simpler model that Github hosts and runs themselves. I think most of the issues with Copilot that I've seen are upstream issues with one or two individual models (e.g. the Twitter API goes down so the Grok model is unavailable, etc)
- everfrustrated 8mo agoNice! I still remember the old GitHub status page which showed and reported on their uptime. No surprises they took it offline and replaced it with the current one when it started reporting the truth. EDIT: You mention this with archive.org links! Love it! https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/#about https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/#about
- jablongo 8mo agoIt looks like one of my employees got her whole account deleted or banned without warning during this outage. Hopefully this is resolved as service returns.
- GeneralGrevous 8mo agofix it or I will send robot to your house blud #greenpurplelifesmade #Imcocoforcocoapuffs
- properbrew 8mo agoNow it seems Actions has broken - https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
- guluarte 8mo agoAnd now actions are down... great. https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
- properbrew 8mo agoThank god it's only Actions, Copilot, Issues, Git, Pages, Packages and Pull Requests....
- GeneralGrevous 8mo agoFix this or I will send my droid army. #greenpurplelifesmatter #Imcocoforcocoapuffs #ihatejedi
- twistedpair 8mo agoIn the age of Claude Code et al, my honest biggest bottleneck is GH downtime. I've got a dozen PRs I'm working on, but it's all frozen up, daily, with GH outages. Are the other providers offering much better uptime GitLab, CircleCI, Harness? Saying this as someone that's been GH exclusive sicne 2010.
- olafmol 8mo agoI think we (CircleCI) are doing quite well: https://status.circleci.com/ https://status.circleci.com/
- ilovefrog 8mo agowhen im on w2 this is good but when im contracting this is bad
- trollbridge 8mo agoFortunately, git is quite resilient and you can work offline and even do pull requests with your peers without GitHub.
- gamblor956 8mo agoMS is now all in on agentic coding. Github stability worse than ever. Windows 11 and Office stability worse than ever. Features that were useful for decades on computers with low resources are now "too hard" too implement. Coincidence?
- altern8 8mo agoOne reason for the reduction in global downtime could be that with time they add more and more services that can go down and affect the stats. Just saying.
- jnhbgvjkb 8mo agoIf you were looking for a signal to leave github, then this is it.
- hkt 8mo agoChurlish of me to say, but wasn't GH so much more reliable before the acquisition by Microsoft?
- meccar 8mo agoDoes anyone have issue like Workflow cannot be canceled? It keeps displaying "Failed to cancel workflow." when I tried to cancel it and the flow has been stuck in status "In Progress" for the last 5 hours and still counting
- varunr89 8mo agoDid a little bit of analysis on outage trends. Tl;dr: there has been an increase in outages since 2019 owing primarily to the increased feature surface areas (Codespace, Actions, Copilot) and higher usage in the AI era. https://me.bhavanaai.com/blog/github-outage-trends/ https://me.bhavanaai.com/blog/github-outage-trends/
- yerushalayim 8mo agoWhat's new?