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Re: GitHub was down

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Post by nox101 » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:33 PM UTC

weystrom wrote: post #99

A reminder of how centralized and dependent the whole industry has become on GH, which is ironic, considering that git itself is designed to be decentralized. Good opportunity to think about mirroring your repos somewhere else like Gitea or Gitlab.

They're already mirrored on my hard drive. That's how git works.

Re: GitHub was down

#152

Post by sergiogjr » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:34 PM UTC

Yep, angry unicorn. If the copilot debacle wasn't reason enough to make people migrate or diversify the code repo efforts with, let's say, GitLab, this should.

Re: GitHub was down

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Post by remram » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:35 PM UTC

@dang https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/kz4khcgdsfdv is probably a better link for this submission now

Re: GitHub was down

#154

Post by count_countules » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:35 PM UTC

josvdwest wrote: post #96

Would this explain why "npm install next-sanity" doesn't work properly, or am I hitting a user error?

could be if the package is hosted on github

Re: GitHub was down

#155

Post by jacooper » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:35 PM UTC

suyash wrote: post #38

RIP to all those who host their websites on GitHub pages :(

First time in a while that pages goes down with github itself, it's usually separate from the main site.

Re: GitHub was down

#156

Post by peterlk » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:35 PM UTC

tmvnty wrote: post #66

xelamonster wrote: post #30

Love that HN is a better status page for dev services than most companies can manage to provide. Knew I'd find it here but on the front page within 3 minutes is impressive.

HN need to publish their secrets on how they rarely goes down!

Based on what I've read in the past, I believe the secret is simplicity. Simplicity scales

Re: GitHub was down

#157

Post by bogwog » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:36 PM UTC

suyash wrote: post #38

RIP to all those who host their websites on GitHub pages :(

Anybody who publishes an app on the Google Play store and hosts their privacy policy on Github pages may have their app taken down because Google's bots won't be able to verify it exists.

That happened to me a while back with an app listing that was almost 10 years old because the server I was hosting the policy on went down. Ironically, I switched it to Github pages so it wouldn't happen again.

Re: GitHub was down

#158

Post by unicorner » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:36 PM UTC

I've never seen such a serious outage before. Even GitHub Pages hosted sites aren't accessible.

Re: GitHub was down

#159

Post by xp84 » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:37 PM UTC

kalkin wrote: post #75

karmakaze wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the angry unicorn page "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists. Contact Support — GitHub Status — @githubstatus" with that last link going to https://x.com/githubstatus showing "GitHub Status Oct 22, 2018 Everything operating normally."

I think this is because logged-out Twitter now shows top Tweets of all time from a user, rather than most recent Tweets. Good reason why companies shouldn't be using Twitter/X for status updates anymore!

Thank you! I was wondering why all I could see was useless content there!

Re: GitHub was down

#160

Post by OutOfHere » Wed, Aug 14, 2024, 11:37 PM UTC

bitbasher wrote: post #14

The timing is pretty uncanny. I just deployed a github page and had a DNS issue because I configured it wrong. I hit "check again" and github went down. Hope I don't appear in the incident report.

Fwiw, GitHub Pages is down too. The hosted Pages sites are down.