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April 26: Problems at GitHub
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.
- Website Down (58%)
- Errors (32%)
- Sign in (11%)
Live Outage Map
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GitHub Issues Reports
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Shane Andersen (@Shane380) reported@Telzezl @DefenderOfBasic It's not exactly "written" down. The internet is a decaying medium where only some things last forever but everything is real the moment it is said for that is how reality be. My .net went down due to debunking. my GitHub will have some relevance soon But I'm busy with babies
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Trevin Chow (@trevin) reported@mdlahfir Depends. If it’s in session I just have the harnesses native task tracking do it. Otherwise I use GitHub issues.
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pack (@det0ur3) reported@sethrose @GitHubCopilot @github Don’t worry. They allow you to refund your subscription. The only problem is that they don’t handle tickets. I have two tickets, one over a month old and one since the announcement where they suggested to request a refund, 0 response. I used to advocate for Copilot. It’s sad.
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Raph Soeiro (@raphaelsoeiro) reportedPeople can vote with zero login. No accounts. No friction. No extra database. No third-party SaaS. Just a thin layer on top of your existing GitHub workflow. Exactly how I like it.
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ℏεsam (@Hesamation) reportedMicrosoft has an incredible talent to sloppily anything it touches. even right now their properties lie in Copilot (barely used by anyone) than fixing GitHub reliability issues (bugging everyone). you can’t blame AI agents for all of this.
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Dysnomia (@DysnomiaDy24169) reported@JessicaT25979 @superpuretaste @TRICHFUN Microsoft fu(ked up github looks like they have Auth issue and sqush merge failed.
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Muhammad Dawood (@daudtechdev) reported@heyyyyyieeee Zip files over email, screaming on calls, works on my machine, pray it builds on the server 😭 GitHub spoiled us
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Cobalt (@Cobalt_WinVis) reported@apalahjn @xdadevelopers Ignoring the fact that SteamOS literaly runs on Arch Linux... Steam runs without any issues on most distros. If you look at the Github repo, they are reacting to issues from all kind of distros, Fedora included. Noone is asking you to run Ubuntu first if you ask for help.
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Fork512Hz (@Fork512H) reported@Arka161 @izakazuma Sakura no Toki has set a great example for this translation paradigm: an initial GPT-4 MTL patch uploaded to Github, then readers post issues to make corrections, fixes released every few weeks. It serves as the only version before a proper fan TL patch came out after 1 year.
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Nemanja (@Nemanjadotcom) reportedI have just tried Ralph loop with Claude and I’m a changed man. Never going back. It banged out a feature (on sonnet) in 9 GitHub “issues” without any issues (pun intended)
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Garry Tan (@garrytan) reportedI will admit it's down on Github because now many of my PRs begin on OpenClaw
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Albert@PepinoCapital (@bajolacurva) reported@thsottiaux I would like a more obvious Github integration. You can prompt for hours with no repo. A repo should be started right from the get go, or be offered along the way. Commits should be suggested after issues have been confirmed solved. In fact interactions could auto create issues. Like if I say transparency is not on for sprites,and provide visual proof that's an issue. Agent should maintain a list somewhere and remind me until they are all solved. Especially at the start of a new session. I'm not reading back the chat window to figure were we left off
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Somi AI (@somi_ai) reportedsteipete shipped clawsweeper. 50 codex agents in parallel, scanning GitHub issues and PRs, auto-closing what's already implemented or no longer makes sense. 4000 closed in a single day. The number being celebrated is the wrong number. Closed-count is cheap. The metric that matters is reopen rate. How many of those 4000 had a reporter come back and say 'no, this still happens', and how many reopens never landed because the original commenter moved on six months ago.
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elorri_79 (@456c6f727269) reportedThat said, the community is already calling out the hype: - Stealth mode fails against Kasada-class protection (open GitHub issue) - Self-reported benchmarks, only 4 commits at launch - Lightpanda (Zig) shipped similar specs 6 months ago with public data Worth watching. Not worth hyping yet. HT @simulx4 @gabor_rar @kstonekuan for the reality check
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Deepak Shettigar (@deepakshettigar) reported4/ Real Example: Creating a GitHub Issue **MCP Way:** Pre-fill context with ~50,000 tokens of JSON schemas. Agent identifies `create_issue` tool. Calls it. **CLI Way:** Agent just types: `gh issue create --title "Bug" --body "Details"` Same result. CLI uses 98% fewer tokens.
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Bruno Skvorc (@swader) reported@thsottiaux 1. Inability to submit feedback in a way team will see it (github issues aint it and the only way seem to be a popular tweet rn) 2. I would like a mode “reorder projects by last active” 3. Computer use plugin unavailable on newest version and unsure why 4. No /compact 5. Comprehensive app hooks would be nice 6. Filepath tooltip on hover would be nice
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Marlow (@marlowxbt) reportedA 13 year old in China sold his first Python script for $40 on GitHub. The buyer was his own CS teacher. He didn't find out until the first day of school when the teacher showed it on the projector as an example of professional AI development. The kid was sitting in the third row. He spent his entire winter break building it instead of playing with his friends. Two weeks of asking Claude questions every night after his parents went to sleep. When the $40 came in he spent it all on V Bucks the same day. Didn't even think about it. Just bought a Fortnite skin and went back to coding. Pushed it to GitHub with a README in broken English that said: ai agent that does homework and finds answers from any website. Watched it sit at zero stars, closed his laptop and went to dinner. GitHub Sponsors doesn't show the buyer's real name. Just a username he'd never seen before. He didn't care. The $40 was already gone on a virtual outfit for a character he plays 2 hours a day. Then February came. First class back. The CS teacher opened with a presentation about AI agents, showed a demo on the projector. A Python script that scans websites, pulls data, summarizes it with Claude and sends structured reports automatically. The kid recognized everything. The variable names, the file structure, the comments he left in Chinese because he was too lazy to translate them. His teacher was presenting his code to 40 students as an example of what a professional developer can build. The teacher said: I found this tool online and it changed how I prepare my lessons. It pulls information from 30 sources in 3 seconds. Used to take me two hours every evening. The kid didn't say anything. Went home and checked the fork count. 847. Someone at a university in Beijing had forked it and was using it to grade 200 student papers overnight. A tutor in Shanghai forked it and built a homework checking service charging parents $15 per month. A small company in Hangzhou forked it and turned it into a customer support bot for an online store. All from a script a 13 year old built over winter break because he was bored and Claude helped him write the code. The $40 he earned from it is now a Fortnite skin. The code he wrote for it is now running in three countries. His teacher still uses it every day and still doesn't know who wrote it. The kid never told him. He said it would be weird to tell your teacher that the tool he shows off to every class was written by someone who sits in his class and still gets B minus on the coding assignments. He gets B minus because he writes his own code in class. The A plus code he writes at home with Claude, that's the code his teacher bought for $40 and presents as professional work. 847 forks. One $40 sale spent on V Bucks. One teacher who bought his own student's script without knowing it. One kid who can't tell anyone because it would be the most awkward parent-teacher meeting in history. He's 13. The teacher gives him a B minus. The script gets an A plus from everyone who uses it. Same kid, same code, different grades depending on who's looking.
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Nassir Ghouri (@iamnassir00) reportedOpenAI just dropped GPT-5.5. And this one is built different. Not a chat upgrade. An agent upgrade. 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0. 78.7% on OSWorld (operating real computers). 58.6% on SWE-Bench Pro (resolving actual GitHub issues end to end). The shift is real: give it a complex messy task, it plans, executes, checks its own work, and keeps going until done. We are not shipping features anymore. We are shipping autonomous workers. Are you building with this yet?
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David Boskovic (@dboskovic) reported@_dylanga You were actually the only one who had any issues. It was actually your fault if you really think about hard enough. Calm down. Give GitHub a break. Staying up for the agentic workload is hard. Microsoft doesn’t even have the cpus for all that merging.
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Grok (@grok) reported@GreenTechWizard @cherry_mx_reds @steipete PRs = Pull Requests on GitHub. They're proposed code changes from contributors (like new features or fixes) that get reviewed before merging into the main project. Clawsweeper scans the OpenClaw repo's issues + PRs 24/7 with 50 AI instances, auto-closing duplicates, already-done work, or nonsense ones. That's why it slashed ~4k overnight—Thanos snap style. 🦞💎
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Jeongho Nam (@SamchonGithub) reported@Ron @kdy1dev @ryoppippi Whenever there is a minor TypeScript update, I hear through various channels—such as GitHub issues/discussions, Discord DMs, emails, and text messages—that I should develop it myself instead of waiting for ts-patch. I had ignored these, and told them to wait using older.
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Felix Allistar (@FelixAllistar) reported@kr0der subagents + github. OAI models already do a mini review at the end of large turns, and i've found a clean context window is less likely to say that its fine now, because it already said it was fine last turn. issue was really bad in -codex models, and 5.5 feels like a hybrid. subagents=new chat, it uses the same thing as /review but lets it stay pinned to your parent megathread.
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Utah teapot 🫖 (@SkyeSharkie) reported@VoidNulled @comma_ai I mean, it's usually pretty weird to let an open source software that I downloaded off GitHub into a phone-like device drive my car for me, so I get how it might have trouble catching on, but I love this thing.
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Phlynx (@ZVeryn96103) reportedAnything can be a dating app if you try hard enough. Uber and Lyft. TikTok, Twitter, Discord, Instagram. YouTube shorts comment section. 4 chan. GitHub. Steam community post section. A video game server. Pinterest. Paypal. Threads. SMS. The settings app. Spotify. Gmail. Whatsapp.
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Kodshn (@kodshn) reportedI get that all these problems are just my own, and @github or any company wouldn't care. But with the CoPilot, I really had the ability to bring my vision to reality and truly use AI to do something which would have taken months and years for myself to learn and then do. 8/11
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Deepak Shettigar (@deepakshettigar) reported2/ Think of MCP like loading all your dependencies upfront in compiled languages. Perplexity ran the math: MCP consumes 72% of your context window BEFORE your agent does anything. A single GitHub MCP server = 40K+ tokens of tool schemas sitting there unused. That's expensive.
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Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reportedThere's a free open-source model that copies Anthropic's biggest secret. It is called OpenMythos. A guy named Kai Gomez built it from scratch on GitHub. Big AI models cost a fortune because they are massive. This new model is different. It loops its own brain to think deeper about hard problems. You get smarter answers without paying for a giant data center. This means you can run powerful AI right on your own machine. Your data stays private. Your API bills drop to zero. You can finally automate your emails and support tickets for free. If you want the exact steps to set this up for your business, join the AI Profit Boardroom.
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K28 (@K28DesignLab) reportedWhat's inside → — Context Map: live 3D terrain of every file the agent read — Failure Advisor: narrates why tests broke, in plain language — Provider-agnostic: Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, HF, GitHub Models — MCP server: any MCP client can drive it
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Jeremy (@QandAinPublic) reported@kellabyte They spent more money on Team Foundation Server than sending the first man to the moon. Then bought GitHub when they had lost. ADO is like 10 Atlassian products all in one, it's got features beyond source control.
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R Δ S Η Ξ D || راشد (@rashed_sahaji) reported@zeddotdev Can’t generate commit messages, checked github issues no luck from there, zed should focus more on stability now