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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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Different set of ideologies completely, not an alternative.

An alternative set of ideologies is part of what makes it ... an alternative! I mean, that plus better uptime.

I remember in 2024 passing over codeberg as the host for some of my personal projects because of the uptime. I don’t think Codeberg’s uptime has gotten any better but despite that it’s getting a lead over GitHub now.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health

It has nothing to do with load.

The CTO said otherwise: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/addressing-gi...

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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githubstatus.com has been updated with an incident now: > Update - We are seeing an approximate 20% error rate across numerous experiences including Pull Requests, Issues, and others. Investigations are currently under way and we will be posting updates as they become available Aug 17, 2026 - 13:45 UTC

experiences, as if we're in disneyland

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health

As a _paying_ customer, I disagree.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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is the infrastructure of the free tier shared with that of paid users? That might be the issue. Otherwise if usage of paid users scales, then it would be fine.

> is the infrastructure of the free tier shared with that of paid users? github enterprise is fully operational at the moment

At least enterprise EU is partially affected

https://eu.githubstatus.com/posts/dashboard

We cannot pull any actions images (or how it is called) for example.

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#307
Clones, repo browsing etc are all working.

/pull/:id/changes is not working, but /pull/:id.diff _is_. It seems parts of the API is also ok? some gh commands I tried worked.

Files changed works on the mobile app somehow. I guess a particular api version or something is down.

Anyway if someone needs files changed and merge status, check the mobile app. Past actions are also loading on that.

[Android, India]

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

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That's an overly optimistic view of things. For a lot of us GitHub is critical infrastructure, which if it goes down loses us and our customers money.

"It's just money. It's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat". Jeremy Irons in movie Margin Call

You cant eat a quote

Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]

#309

The LLM code influx is not the problem. Microsoft mismanagement is: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

GitHub's historical uptime page is fake, they backfilled it with 100% uptime going back to 1996: https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime?page=200
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