Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues

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.

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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

My god. I hope the constant refreshing helps.

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

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

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

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4

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

Right at the precise moment I decide to git pull!

That's ok Copilot will fix it

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

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

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

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

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.