Ask HN: Is GitHub down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by Gordonjcp » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 6:49 PM UTC

sophacles wrote: post #132

Gordonjcp wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhm, okay. Rather than looking at a rather noddy status page, have you tried using it?

Yes and everything times out.

Are you sure it's Github and not your ISP or something? I've just pushed commits to a bunch of repositories in the past half hour.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by squalo » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 6:51 PM UTC

Not a single day passes without a MAJOR outage in a Microsoft owned service.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 7:17 PM UTC

Maxion wrote: post #108

edgyquant wrote: post #52

Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.

I think the same thing every time my credentials to our issue tracker expires and I have to log in again. I am the lead dev on two projects.

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Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by voodooEntity » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 7:36 PM UTC

edgyquant wrote: post #52

Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.

Well im IT Teamlead and imposter syndrom hits me hard too. Always wonder when the day will come.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by maximilianroos » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:16 PM UTC

edgyquant wrote: post #52

Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.

At a friend's company, the CEO had a calendar invite of "Fire Dan", for April 1. Dan went to confirm it was an April Fools' joke. It wasn't!

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by jachee » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:25 PM UTC

CommitSyn wrote: post #141

Maxion wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the same thing every time my credentials to our issue tracker expires and I have to log in again. I am the lead dev on two projects.

Is there a name for firing trauma? I'm like this ever since I was scapegoated.

I’m no mental health professional, but that sounds like literal PTSD, to me.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by ShamelessC » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

adnauseum wrote: post #137

hn8305823 wrote: post #30

140.82.113.0/24 is visible in the global routing table: route-views>sh bgp 140.82.113.0 BGP routing table entry for 140.82.113.0/24, version 62582026 Paths: (19 available, best #4, table default) The route is verified by RPKI so it's not a route hijack. Edit: deleted traceroute

This is so cool! I'm not at all familiar with any of this network stuff. Any good resources for learning these tools and when to use them? Sorry to bother!

TCP/IP Illustrated is a good start.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by jachee » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

mbreese wrote: post #56

https://www.githubstatus.com/ Just flipped to red. See here: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gqx5l06jjxhp >Investigating - We are currently experiencing an outage of GitHub products and are investigating. >Jun 29, 2023 - 17:52 UTC

As the person in charge of one such page, I’d like to take the opportunity to remind folks that many— if not most—of these status pages are hand-updated, and most bosses absolutely hate anyone having to update them to anything but green.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by dathinab » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:33 PM UTC

edgyquant wrote: post #52

Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.

thats not very healthy given how unreliable github has become in recent years.

E.g. just yesterday for a short time frame of a few hours maybe half a day or so they had a bug where some closed PRs where shown in the personal which show created _not closed_ PRs.

Or github CI having spurious job cancellations or sometimes on a job failing waits until some (quite long) timeout is reached before reporting it.

Or it temporary being (partial or fully) down for a few hours.

Or it's documentation even through rather complete somehow managing to be often rather inconvenient to use. Oh wait that's not a bug, just subtle bad design, like it's PR overview/filters. Both cases of something which seems right on the first look, but starts being more and more inconvenient the more you use it. A trend I would argue describes GitHub as a whole rather well.

Re: Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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Post by jachee » Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 8:34 PM UTC

munk-a wrote: post #59

stefanos82 wrote: post #15

So down right now...I wonder why they still use https://www.githubstatus.com/ that reports everything is alright when it's not!

https://downdetector.com/status/github/ is a far more reliable source - it's just powered by user reports and often will show issues long before the status page ever receives an update.

Keep in mind that downdetector can be brigaded and/or show knock-on problems instead of root causes. e.g. A couple weeks ago there were fairly major spikes across a rather huge variety of services on there, but it turned out that it was actually Comcast that was having trouble, rather than any of the “down” services.