alt Hacker NewsGitHub is down again
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I guess Bill Gates has a virus.
the 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.
I wonder if the incident root cause analysis will point to vibe coding?
Maybe we should post when it's up
Azure infra rock solid as always.
Damn, I was also trying to push and deploy a critical bug fix that was needed within minutes.
I 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
We 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.
Churlish of me to say, but wasn't GH so much more reliable before the acquisition by Microsoft?
I was wondering why my AUR packages won’t update, just my luck.
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.
Fix this or I will send my droid army. #greenpurplelifesmatter #Imcocoforcocoapuffs #ihatejedi
They put too much AI in it bot enough engineering rigor
sorry all, i took a month off and then opened github.com
I look forward to the day that jjhub becomes available...
> Monday
Beyond a meme at this point
Is it just me, or are critical services like GitHub, AWS, Google, etc., down more often than they used to be these days?
1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.
Monolith looking like a good now?
Github'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.
One 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.
it's Monday therefore Github is down.
GitHub 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.
Copilot, what have you done again?
GitHub 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.
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!
presumably slophub's now dogfooding GitHub Agentic Workflows?
3 incidents in feb already lmao
Now it seems Actions has broken - https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
when im on w2 this is good but when im contracting this is bad
Can 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.
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.
vibe coding too much?
I bet Microsoft did this...
Related incidents:
Incident with Pull Requests https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9
Copilot Policy Propagation Delays https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/t5qmhtg29933
Incident with Actions https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/tkz0ptx49rl0
Degraded performance for Copilot Coding Agent https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qrlc0jjgw517
Degraded Performance in Webhooks API and UI, Pull Requests https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/ffz2k716tlhx
I 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.
Good 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.
fix it or I will send robot to your house blud #greenpurplelifesmade #Imcocoforcocoapuffs
tangled is up B]
migrating to azure kills businesses
MS 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?
Welcome to Microsoft Github
And now actions are down... great. https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd
Now Github pages are down
I made this joke 10 hours ago: "I wonder if you opened 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!