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Re: GitHub was down

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I've never seen an outage this big. Even the homepage doesn't load. We've had recurrent issues with Actions not running, but this seems a lot bigger. The status page says all is well, though: https://www.githubstatus.com/ . Hilarious.

Wow, the status page only just now started reporting issues, and it still doesn't seem to communicate the scale of the issue. People use this page for guidance. I guess now we know how much it can be trusted.

It’s used to ease their comms, not a real time status board pointing at their monitoring.

Re: GitHub was down

#63

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Pages and Pull Requests Aug 14, 2024 - 23:11 UTC

Update - Pages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:12 UTC

Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:13 UTC

Re: GitHub was down

#65
Me: I think I'll update nixos*

Nix: barfs voluminous errors I've never seen before

Me: whaaaat the farrrrk

* nixos updates are pulled from a github repo

Re: GitHub was down

#66

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!

Re: GitHub was down

#67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Update - Pages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:12 UTC

Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:13 UTC

Update - We are investigating reports of issues with GitHub.com and GitHub API. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:16 UTC

EDIT: The reply link is no longer available.

Update - Packages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:18 UTC

Re: GitHub was down

#68

I've never seen an outage this big. Even the homepage doesn't load. We've had recurrent issues with Actions not running, but this seems a lot bigger. The status page says all is well, though: https://www.githubstatus.com/ . Hilarious.

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Re: GitHub was down

#69

I've never seen an outage this big. Even the homepage doesn't load. We've had recurrent issues with Actions not running, but this seems a lot bigger. The status page says all is well, though: https://www.githubstatus.com/ . Hilarious.

I have to wonder how a company at the scale of GitHub can be so bad at keeping track of their status.

Now 4 out of 10 services are marked as "Incident", yet most of the others are also completely dead.

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