GitHub is down again

#1

Post by MattIPv4 » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

Re: GitHub is down again

#2

Post by MattIPv4 » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

Status page currently says the only issue is notification delays, but I have been getting a lot of Unicorn pages while trying to access PRs.

Edit: Looks like they've got a status page up now for PRs, separate from the earlier notifications one: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9

Edit: Now acknowledging issues across GitHub as a whole, not just PRs.

Re: GitHub is down again

#3

Post by salmon » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

MattIPv4 wrote: post #2

Status page currently says the only issue is notification delays, but I have been getting a lot of Unicorn pages while trying to access PRs. Edit: Looks like they've got a status page up now for PRs, separate from the earlier notifications one: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9 Edit: Now acknowledging issues across GitHub as a whole, not just PRs.

Yep, trying to access commit details is just returning the unicorn page for me

Re: GitHub is down again

#4

Post by tapoxi » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

Is it really that much better than alternatives to justify these constant outages?

Re: GitHub is down again

#5

Post by albelfio » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

https://www.githubstatus.com/

Re: GitHub is down again

#6

Post by mholt » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

Of course they're down while I'm trying to address a "High severity" security bug in Caddy but all I'm getting is a unicorn when loading the report.

(Actually there's 3 I'm currently working, but 2 are patched already, still closing the feedback loop though.)

I have a 2-hour window right now that is toddler free. I'm worried that the outage will delay the feedback loop with the reporter(s) into tomorrow and ultimately delay the patches.

I can't complain though -- GitHub sustains most of my livelihood so I can provide for my family through its Sponsors program, and I'm not a paying customer. (And yet, paying would not prevent the outage.) Overall I'm very grateful for GitHub.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by showerst » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

If you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no.

If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an all-time own goal in our industry.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by porise » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

Take it away from Microsoft. Not sure how this isn't an antitrust issue anyway.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by riffic » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

tapoxi wrote: post #4

Is it really that much better than alternatives to justify these constant outages?

self-host your own services. There are a lot of alternatives to GitHub.

Re: GitHub is down again

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Post by dsagent » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

tapoxi wrote: post #4

Is it really that much better than alternatives to justify these constant outages?

We're starting to have that convo in our org. This is just getting worse and worse for Github.

Hosting .git is not that complicated of a problem in isolation.