Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions • Hacker News Board

hosteur wrote: post #8

bharxhav wrote: post #6

Would be interesting to see if this correlated with their release cycles.

Well, outages seem to be distributed across all days except weekends. So this seems like people fucking around with stuff being a major factor.

Surely it just means more people working, resulting in more load, resulting in more outages?

Re: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

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Post by pards » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:23 AM UTC

This design is perfect irony. I love it.

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Post by ramon156 » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:24 AM UTC

Please tell me this makes sense

This website has no overused ai-generated animations and... I quite enjoy it. The original website[1] has a fade-in animation, big round cards, shadows, all the jazz you can think of, it's there.

This site is very readable, very honest and sober. I don't need to sift through buzzwords to figure out tiny details.

Thank you, OP!

1: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

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Post by ngruhn » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC

danfritz wrote: post #10

I wonder how well this corolates with azure incidents. Especially for the US regions.

I live in Europe. I've not noticed these constant outages. But I only use GitHub after work.

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Post by mirekrusin » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:27 AM UTC

globular-toast wrote: post #5

cyanydeez wrote: post #2

double entendre: Is it load based or github-employee based that weekends are sparser. or just a multifactor of both.

Didn't they blame "AI" for the increased load? I'm not sure why AI usage would be more during the week than the weekend, but it could be. It does look like Friday outages were a bit rarer, which could be due to having a "no deployments on Friday" rule.

From the chart it seems they should have policy to deploy on weekends only.

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Post by airstrike » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:28 AM UTC

can you correlate this to data on # of commits, actions, etc?

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Post by korrectional » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC

I don't really understand why this is happening at this scale, it's not like they just became broke and can't afford a proper server... can someone explain?