GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)

Status 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

Edit: Now acknowledging issues across GitHub as a whole, not just PRs.

Is it really that much better than alternatives to justify these constant outages?

Of 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.

If 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.

Take it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.

They 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!

3 incidents in feb already lmao

> Monday

Beyond a meme at this point

Copilot, what have you done again?

it's Monday therefore Github is down.

Yeap, getting this for the last 20 minutes. Everything green on their status pages.

Looks like AI replacement of engineering force in action.

Azure Screen of Death?

It'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.

Looks like they've got a status page up now for PRs, separate from the earlier notifications one: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9

Edit: Now acknowledging issues across GitHub as a whole, not just PRs.

Do 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.

Seems like MS copilot is vibe-ing it again ! Some other major cloud provider outages come to mind that never happened before the "vibe" area.

Oh! It's not my GitLab@Hetzner that's not working, it's GitHub. Just when I decided to opensource my project.

Has anyone noticed that in the past year we have seen a LOT of outages?

pretty 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.

presumably slophub's now dogfooding GitHub Agentic Workflows?

tangled is up B]

to 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.