Incident with Github.com [resolved] • Hacker News Board

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#71

Post by ape4 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

Will our hug of death now make githubstatus.com crash

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#72

Post by mikert89 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#73

Post by imstil3earning » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

biennvops wrote: post #47

blinky88 wrote: post #33

This is getting ridiculous. Issues, PRs, actions... nothing's working

Interestingly enough if you access the PR number directly it still works.

But the `Files changed` tab still 500's so the direct PR link is not worth much

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#74

Post by r_blake » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#75

Post by anoplus » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

How did Github become so famous for outages? It is almost like a routine. I haven't used other code repo hosting / CI/CD pipelines platform for last decade, so maybe it's just the nature of this business, I don't know.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#76

Post by rand_r » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

consumer451 wrote: post #57

aleksandrm wrote: post #27

Can anyone shed some light why GitHub is having so many problems lately?

Copy/paste of a comment I posted a couple months ago: I am not trying to make any excuses for GitHub, however I recall one tweet that made my eyes bug-out: > Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) > GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week i…

That's fine, but rate limiting is a solved problem at this point. They need to rate-limit free accounts and be realistic about their limits instead of letting the system fail.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#77

Post by jemiluv8 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

Awwww maaaan. I was just reading an upstream patch on the erpnext framework. I was going to do their copy the pr to patch my erpnext v15

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#78

Post by c2403 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

beardedetim wrote: post #15

We're starting to have the conversation of "do we need to replace GitHub as our CI/CD pipeline?" No idea if/when we decide to pull that bandaid but I think once we can't merge a hot fix into main because of GH being down, it'll be a big org push to replace it. What's everyone else using? Self hosted Gitlab? Gitea?

Have you considered Codeberg?

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#79

Post by Nextgrid » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

mikert89 wrote: post #72

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Don't worry, they are also working hard at destroying those products too.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#80

Post by bjackman » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

khvn26 wrote: post #29

I had a lot of goodwill for GitHub but I think today is the tipping point. Looking at a unicorn page, I feel this lingering hope that it's transient (like it usually was in the old days) but my mind reassures me it's probably going to be a long full outage again. The hope is dead.

I deployed Forgejo on my homelab yesterday. Now GitHub is just a free backup service.

I guess they're quite happy with that TBF, it doesn't seem like they're that interested in being a git forge anyway.