Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues

As of the time of writing, nothing on the status page either :( https://www.githubstatus.com

Actions are failing and starting new actions results in a 500 error... The status page is shockingly all green...

Edit: The status page is no longer green

Ah finally evidence that it’s down. Their status pages didnt say anything. Thank you!

Right at the precise moment I decide to git pull!

My god. I hope the constant refreshing helps.

Seems like it would be increasingly difficult to make a case for switching to GitHub.

GitLab seems to be having some issues too https://status.gitlab.com/

Last time this happened, GPT 5.3-codex was released...

Github continuing their recent trend of less-than-one 9 of availability: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

87.85% of across-the-board availability for the month of February. Maybe March will be even lower.

I'm wondering how many millions in developer productivity are being lost every minute.

I am not a heavy user of GitHub at the moment, but it seems like every week or two there's an outage.

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That's ok Copilot will fix it

Some more discussion: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237088)

It's working intermittently for me, so not entirely down. But yeah I did notice issues, enough to look on DownDetector and check here.

I seriously believe that it's not that GitHub is run on AI-generated code that's responsible for these slew of outages recently. I think it's crumbling under the load of a significantly large amount of AI-enabled coding with users raising PRs and pushing content a lot more than previously.

Obviously, if this is true, the team at GitHub is failing to scale their infra to meet the workload demands.