Normally I defend GH in the comments of these incidents but it’s been an impressively bad month by their standards, even when you filter for critical components filter out sev-2’s and 3’s.
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gred
New PR: revert GitHub software and infrastructure to version of June 1st, 2018.
New PR: disable new user signups for 6 months
HR initiative: all future KPIs automatically require three-nines availability; all bonuses are forfeited, regardless of accomplishments, if annual availability falls below target
HR initiative: fire CEO and CTO
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ckorhonen
This is getting ridiculous. One particularly concerning thing I’m seeing is that pull requests on both the web UI and API aren’t reflecting all commits or branch changes consistently. It would be very easy to merge something without realizing you’re not actually reviewing the full diff.
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xnorswap
Before clicking, I assumed this was going to be a write-up of the one from a few days ago instead of an entirely new incident.
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spaceman_2020
is it me or ever since AI coding became the norm, there have been way more outages with otherwise reliable services?
I get downtime on Supabase every few weeks. Even Cloudflare. And now Github
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cdrnsf
More AI should fix it.
robin_reala
Good that the Billing functionality is still at 3 nines at least.
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eithed
I'd appreciate if they'd not mark the incident as resolved when there's still fallout - ie: my commits didn't display on the branch, my actions didn't run
It's the same issue as the other day - display message at the top admitting that cache needs to be refreshed (or whatever the wording was)
Systemic33
Someone linked this third-party "honest" status page:
Are they running paid marketing campaigns for Gitlab ?
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rozab
If you go to www.githubstatus.com, the downtime is not showing in the chart. I was annoyed enough yesterday when I visited this page to figure out why my Actions had failed and was greeted with big green ticks and only a tiny red rectangle halfway down the page to indicate the problem.
This time they've just scrubbed the evidence outright?
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voidUpdate
They may have gotten down to only 2 nines on most of their services, but at least the LLM is still running at full power! must increase value for shareholders
hydrogenbon007
The software reliability and uptime is going bad across the industry, railway, github etc
wild that there is a large pattern forming up of unreliable software being pushed
throwatdem12311
Maybe GitHub needs to freeze free repository creation until they get this under control because this is ridiculous.
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dzonga
git is supposed to be decentralized.
maybe it's time to revert back to the central idea of git & not centralize around a particular provider.
for issues - mailing list will do. you can always slap a beautiful ui if you want to or a tui (as is the fad) these days.
actions can also be decentralized via an API spec & webhooks.
trenchgun
But everything else still works fine, right?
hansmayer
Can't they just use one of Satiya's "powerful daily prompts" and ask the - was it "Mico"? - to excrement their way out of these troubles? Ah - you're telling me those powerful prompts were just bullshit for the lazy office cretin who is mainly reading and writing emails throughout the week? They don't really create any new fucking value? No way - I thought CEOs paid tens of millions of dollars each year had real competence justifying such high salaries.
fen4o
Tried to do a git push - it succeeded after 3 mins. Then I wanted to open a PR and it failed with a 500 error.
Facepalmed and decided that this is it for today.
looperhacks
Maybe we should start posting av story when GitHub has been fine for some time instead of posting every incident
cedws
I'm so done with GitHub.
maxnoe
GitHub Incident again/
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abhashanand1501
as a github user, we are paying for the slow git operations through our github action minutes, if someone from GH is here, will you be compensating for it?
drcongo
For years we had a GitHub status thing in our Slack but I had to remove it about a year ago because the noise got too much, it would be unbearable in 2026.
Hamuko
Yesterday my CI runs wouldn't even be created because Actions was eating shit, and today my CI runs get created but fail because the API is eating shit. Fun.
dist-epoch
GitHub is not agent scale.
Multiple companies are trying to create new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo.
It's like switching from horse buggies to automobiles, the whole worlds needs re-architecturing to handle the new load.
The age of boutique hand-coding is being replaced by the age of industrial software factories.
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shevy-java
I think it is time to decouple GitHub from Microsoft. Microsoft has shown irresponsible behaviour - and this continues. They keep on going at it until nothing works anymore. Typical microslop work.
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Arbortheus
Fed up and bored of this
emartinez-dev
I thought it was the yesterday's thread but no, here we go again
rvz
Again?
It was just yesterday [0] that GA was down and another incident today? I am convinced that Copilot and Tay.ai are destroying GitHub and there is no CEO of GitHub to contact.
Now will you please self-host as I said 6 years ago? [1]
https://isgithubcooked.com
Normally I defend GH in the comments of these incidents but it’s been an impressively bad month by their standards, even when you filter for critical components filter out sev-2’s and 3’s.
New PR: revert GitHub software and infrastructure to version of June 1st, 2018.
New PR: disable new user signups for 6 months
HR initiative: all future KPIs automatically require three-nines availability; all bonuses are forfeited, regardless of accomplishments, if annual availability falls below target
HR initiative: fire CEO and CTO
This is getting ridiculous. One particularly concerning thing I’m seeing is that pull requests on both the web UI and API aren’t reflecting all commits or branch changes consistently. It would be very easy to merge something without realizing you’re not actually reviewing the full diff.
Before clicking, I assumed this was going to be a write-up of the one from a few days ago instead of an entirely new incident.
is it me or ever since AI coding became the norm, there have been way more outages with otherwise reliable services?
I get downtime on Supabase every few weeks. Even Cloudflare. And now Github
More AI should fix it.
Good that the Billing functionality is still at 3 nines at least.
I'd appreciate if they'd not mark the incident as resolved when there's still fallout - ie: my commits didn't display on the branch, my actions didn't run
It's the same issue as the other day - display message at the top admitting that cache needs to be refreshed (or whatever the wording was)
Someone linked this third-party "honest" status page:
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
Seems more accurate with my experience of GitHub.
It seems before AI eats software, its going to first eat GH and Microsoft.
https://GiveUpGithub.org
Are they running paid marketing campaigns for Gitlab ?
If you go to www.githubstatus.com, the downtime is not showing in the chart. I was annoyed enough yesterday when I visited this page to figure out why my Actions had failed and was greeted with big green ticks and only a tiny red rectangle halfway down the page to indicate the problem.
This time they've just scrubbed the evidence outright?
They may have gotten down to only 2 nines on most of their services, but at least the LLM is still running at full power! must increase value for shareholders
The software reliability and uptime is going bad across the industry, railway, github etc
wild that there is a large pattern forming up of unreliable software being pushed
Maybe GitHub needs to freeze free repository creation until they get this under control because this is ridiculous.
git is supposed to be decentralized.
maybe it's time to revert back to the central idea of git & not centralize around a particular provider.
for issues - mailing list will do. you can always slap a beautiful ui if you want to or a tui (as is the fad) these days.
actions can also be decentralized via an API spec & webhooks.
But everything else still works fine, right?
Can't they just use one of Satiya's "powerful daily prompts" and ask the - was it "Mico"? - to excrement their way out of these troubles? Ah - you're telling me those powerful prompts were just bullshit for the lazy office cretin who is mainly reading and writing emails throughout the week? They don't really create any new fucking value? No way - I thought CEOs paid tens of millions of dollars each year had real competence justifying such high salaries.
Tried to do a git push - it succeeded after 3 mins. Then I wanted to open a PR and it failed with a 500 error.
Facepalmed and decided that this is it for today.
Maybe we should start posting av story when GitHub has been fine for some time instead of posting every incident
I'm so done with GitHub.
GitHub Incident again/
as a github user, we are paying for the slow git operations through our github action minutes, if someone from GH is here, will you be compensating for it?
For years we had a GitHub status thing in our Slack but I had to remove it about a year ago because the noise got too much, it would be unbearable in 2026.
Yesterday my CI runs wouldn't even be created because Actions was eating shit, and today my CI runs get created but fail because the API is eating shit. Fun.
GitHub is not agent scale.
Multiple companies are trying to create new versioning primitives/architectures which can handle machine-level code generation - 1 commit per second per repo.
It's like switching from horse buggies to automobiles, the whole worlds needs re-architecturing to handle the new load.
The age of boutique hand-coding is being replaced by the age of industrial software factories.
I think it is time to decouple GitHub from Microsoft. Microsoft has shown irresponsible behaviour - and this continues. They keep on going at it until nothing works anymore. Typical microslop work.
Fed up and bored of this
I thought it was the yesterday's thread but no, here we go again
Again?
It was just yesterday [0] that GA was down and another incident today? I am convinced that Copilot and Tay.ai are destroying GitHub and there is no CEO of GitHub to contact.
Now will you please self-host as I said 6 years ago? [1]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278635
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803