GitHub status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: website down, errors and sign in.
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Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of GitHub reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
May 20: 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 (62%)
- Errors (21%)
- Sign in (18%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 5 days ago |
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Website Down | 5 days ago |
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Website Down | 7 days ago |
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Sign in | 8 days ago |
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Website Down | 12 days ago |
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Website Down | 12 days ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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devon fitness (@devgotlean) reportedRailway Are you guys able to login on your railway? Says error authenticating with GitHub for me! If you have any advice it would mean the world. Can’t sign in @Railway
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Xbotter (@Xbotter) reportedGitHub employee’s device was compromised after installing a poisoned VS Code extension, leading to unauthorized access to ~3,800 internal repositories. GitHub has isolated the device, rotated keys, and is investigating. The bigger issue: VS Code extensions are a prime target for supply chain attacks — fake plugins, hijacked popular extensions, npm dependency poisoning, plus auto-updates and excessive permissions. One install can quietly steal tokens. Open source trust chains are fragile.
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DRUMEE (@DrumeeOS) reported@Rus_Khairullin @github Don't trust any cloud, go for self-host. Trust only your server!
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Grace ETH 🎧 (@Graciel_GG) reported@kloss_xyz This is the AI operator's checklist. Save this, turn each bullet into a GitHub issue, and you've basically specced your whole AI stack.
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KM 🔶 Crypton (@KMCrypton) reported@github Please fix quickly
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Jeremy Justus (@jeremyj0916) reported@github Probably should lock down what extensions employees at the company are allowed to install/use yes?
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Yad (@YadKonrad) reportedI remember that one time when Yahoo (rip) got hacked, the funniest imgur, (also rip), post was: "at least the search works finally!" and it would be funny if the bad actors start to host Github, but with SLA 99.99%, not PR api endpoint going down every 2-3 days.
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devon fitness (@devgotlean) reportedAre you guys able to login on your railway? Says error authenticating with GitHub for me! If you have any advice it would mean the world. Can’t sign in
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Oslaam Manny (@oslaammanny) reported@github Railway is down Now GitHub is facing another issue
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Anthony Spiteri (@anthonyspiteri) reported@github This is getting ridiculous. GitHub investigating unauthorized access to their own internal repos and the first line is still “no evidence of customer impact”. How many more of these “internal only” breaches before Microsoft actually locks this **** down?
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Prajwal Prasad (@prjwrld) reported@antigravity It is incomplete application, not working for me, no github connection, no reliability.
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Robert Ta (@therobertta_) reportedThe interview filter Cat described without saying it: 1. Default to action over alignment 2. Ship imperfect on Friday rather than present a polished plan on Monday 3. Hear "10,000 GitHub issues" and think "which 5 do I build this week" not "let me do a prioritization exercise" If you are interviewing at any AI company, demonstrate shipping speed. Not strategic frameworks.
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Bally_AgenticAI (@bally_kehal) reported@github @GoogleAI @code Iterative agentic coding isn't a model-speed problem - it's a verification problem. The faster you generate, the faster you'll commit nonsense unless there's a self-check step between tool calls. Speed without judgment just compounds bad decisions.
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alkimiadev (@alkimiadev) reported@github I'm glad I switched to self-hosted gitea. About 5 hours ago someone created a post offering to sell your internal data and repos. Its like you guys just hate having users or something. Performance issues, gaslight level bugs that reverse work randomly and now you got pwned.
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matei (@_mateic) reported@zo0r @Railway @neondatabase Their cloud provider (GCP) blocked their account and then dragged their feet on incident response. Hardly the same category of issue that would warrant this public shaming. Are you not equally upset with Github, Cloudflare, AWS, and GCP? Or have you not been roasted there yet?
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Till Felippi (@t1llmann) reportedGithub source code is available for sale 😬 AI really accelerated security breaches. Are we going to see more of this in the future (because of old leaks & sloppy new code) or less because AI will also help to close issues before others detect it?
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SyntaxError (@SyntaxError2505) reportedWe should all just host things on our own servers. Not because of monopoly, uptime, price or any boring topic. Because I don't want github to be down at the same time as steam because both use AWS for something
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AzerothPulse (@AzerothPulse) reported@github gets breached again. Bad actors utilizing frontier AI models while the cybersecurity frontier models are being gate kept. Unless something changes, we are in for unprecedented hacks/breaches over the next 2 years. Not to mention a developer shortage when its time to fix these issues. Meanwhile, companies like @coinbase are laying off developers. We are COOKED.
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YUG1_tm (@Yug1_tm1) reportedIF THIS IS TRUE EVERY GITHUB PROJECT EVER MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE???? ISNT THIS THE BIGGEST NEWS OF THE MONTH
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JustVugg (@justvugg) reportedHow it works: 1. Probes URL → classifies (OpenAPI, JSON, HTML, SPA) 2. Generates Go CLI + MCP server + Claude skill 3. Verifies: build, smoke, MCP handshake, tests 4. Installs to ~/.local/bin ~95% on OpenAPI specs. 21 verified entries (GitHub = 1,183 ops).
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LaraCopilot (@laracopilot) reportedThe full workflow: - Build with LaraCopilot - Push to GitHub - Deploy to Laravel Cloud Zero server config. Zero DevOps meetings. Zero it works on my machine. End-to-end
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Phil Jeffcock 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🐳🆔=🐘🆔=@mastodonapp.uk (@PJeffcock) reported@amznsellerhelp However, all I’m interested in is the “reserved_fc-processing” value to add to fulfillable, inbound and what we have on order to provide our projected inventory position. Shall I raise another GitHub issue over the summation problem or do you think they are depreciating reserved_fc-processing to reserved_staging as a way of fixing a long-standing bug in the arithmetic? 4/4
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Kanika (@KanikaBK) reportedA developer on Reddit spent 36 hours watching a single AI-generated prompt execute 7,328 simulated crypto trades with zero losing sessions, and most people building trading bots have no idea this code exists. 36 hours later, a crypto trading bot had executed 7,328 simulated trades and was showing $566 in profit without a single losing session. Here's what happened. Gemini was asked to generate a lightweight ETH scalping bot. The code was pasted directly into the Webull browser dev console. Then the browser tab was left alone and the process continued unattended. The bot just quietly scalps tiny momentum moves all day with tight trailing stops. Over and over. Boringly consistent. Before you lose your mind: ↳ This is simulated trading, no real money involved ↳ No trading fees counted ↳ No slippage or liquidity issues factored in ↳ Real trading would look different But here is the part that is actually interesting. The behavior. The consistency. The logic. A single AI prompt generated trading logic that ran 7,000+ simulated decisions without a catastrophic failure. The strategy is coherent. The risk management is real. The pattern recognition works. Most people who try to build trading bots spend weeks on the code alone. This person spent one prompt. The full code is on GitHub. Free. Open source. You can run it yourself right now and watch it either print money or blow up spectacularly. The creator's honest note at the end: "I wish trading was this easy, I'm on a nasty drawdown." Which is the most real thing anyone has ever said about crypto. Save this. Link in comments.
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Loftwah (@loftwah) reported@SlayerofApples @Yetee_ GitHub is a lot more than just a *** server though.
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Letemburn (@LetemburnED) reported@schlichter1 @Grummz @PotionDweller no ****. who ******** are hosting their PCM's or any point of contact that matters on github? Literally nobody. There's a difference between a server and a network.
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mattlaltman (@Eyeznskyz) reported@github @BenjaminDEKR I recently had an issue with @madebygoogle Nest thermostats. All my thermostats were randomly set to 65 degrees. It felt like a bug or a breach. They wouldn’t take it seriously and asked me to fill out many questions before helping, deterring me from seeking more support.
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treysync (@0xtreysync) reported@github @_ammar_r Ya’ll need to leave GitHub alone. They can’t fix their downtime issue if y’all keep hacking them.
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Tamim (@tamimbuilds) reported@yadavji_codes GitHub copilot be like I will fix it
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EveryDev.ai (@EveryDevAi) reportedAI agents are great at reasoning but terrible at driving real software like Blender, GIMP, or LibreOffice. CLI-Anything auto-generates a structured CLI harness for any codebase so agents can actually operate professional tools. 36k GitHub stars since March. Full specs next tweet. #DevTools
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Wariohead (@Wariohead_) reported@JustJake @benhylak The issue is NOT fixed. @railway is not deploying commits & pushed from github. Fix your damn product!