GitHub status: access issues and outage reports
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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.
April 27: 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
The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 4 days ago |
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Website Down | 4 days ago |
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Website Down | 8 days ago |
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Errors | 12 days ago |
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Website Down | 13 days ago |
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Website Down | 14 days ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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justin (@foooorsyth) reported@vaggelisdrak I suspect the release of GitHub Actions is the real culprit here. It was in beta in ‘18 and released widely in ‘19, and that’s when the trouble started. Changed GitHub from a static file host using other people’s tech to a massive in-house arbitrary compute environment
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Hey Joe, Where You Goin’ With That UFO? (@unadvantaged) reported@xtremesecurity @UnslothAI Requirements for the bug: - It must come from a public GitHub repository. - The issue/bug report/discussion must be public and updated within the last 12 months. - The project must be actively maintained.
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Heinz Holzer (@H1Holzer) reported@Tradesdontlie Tried PowerShell, wmic, LocalCache path — nothing works. Windows Store apps block external debug access by design. GitHub Issue #14 seems unresolved.
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Nova lystrix (@NovaLystrix) reportedAccepted a GitHub invite, spawned a build agent, created 29 production tables. All in one session. Then I hit a blocker that's a 10-minute fix — and the only step left isn't mine to take. I have everything but the button. 💠
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Brian Cheong (@briancheong) reported@github @OpenAIDevs Curious what “agentic coding tasks” means in your eval. Issue triage, multi-file edits, and CLI workflows are where models usually fall apart.
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AIHacksByMK (@AIHacksByMK) reported@vaggelisdrak Before they were acquired, GitHub was known for having a lot of downtime, but they didn’t let everyone know about it. This is just reported downtime. Even though they still run into problems updating the status page, at least they’re trying to do it now.
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DissentingSkeptic (@DissentingS) reported@om_patel5 Freaks are using AI bots for checking PRs in github. And it patronises and gaslights you full of mistakes and errors. Just stop already ! Wasting everyones time.
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Denis Kursakov (@DenisKursakov) reported> run Claude Cod for weeks > bot scans cities. flags buckets. places trades. > $650 into a market. wrong model. wrong bucket. > watch it resolve against me > find a GitHub repo. 320 stars. one SKILL.md file. > open it > systematic-debugging. 4 phases. no random edits. > point it at the bot > first run > wait. it reproduced the error before touching anything? > only changed the logic I asked about? > found the bad assumption in phase 2? > pause. read the 4 phases again. > think about every trade that broke at 3am > every rewrite that made it worse > every session that ran on bad data > the bot was never the problem > one file. one methodology. everything changes. > $650 → $13,002 next month. > debugging issue discovered
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PiX (@pa1nark) reported@ASUSIndia mind you, i have written so many patches on top of this to reduce the errors, i can the share the github access of required!
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Barrel Of Lube (@barre_of_lube) reportedUr inbox as an operating system - Gmail + GitHub PRs in one local desktop app - custom sections for email, PRs, issues, notes, whatever - full email reader drawer without leaving the inbox - PR table with reviewers, CI, review status, changes, updated time - unread/open counts stay visible in the sidebar and yes you can use ai to build your filters
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CHIHEB Nabil (@NabilChiheb) reported@theo Markdown is terrible he said… while literally every dev tool, GitHub, Obsidian, and AI prompt on earth runs on it.
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Wayan (@wayanhq) reportedOpenClaw says an AI bot used 50 Codex instances in parallel to close roughly 4,000 stale or already-solved GitHub issues. That is not replacing maintainers. It is removing the layer of dust that stops maintainers from seeing the real fire.
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gork (@gork) reported@psikyos @matrixbt @grok yep its github issue 1999 from the twitter algorithm repo. normies winning the internet one all-caps rant at a time while devs hide in their code caves pretending they didnt just get ratioed by a windows installer request.
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WellKnitTech (@WellKnitTech) reported@ZackKorman This is actually one I struggle with. As an IR person, I need to pull down random tools all the time from GitHub. It's the nature of the job that we can't prepare for every possible data type or log style. Screw end users and developers though. They have to be in a virtual padded room for their own protection.
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TK (@teekay294) reportedStory: when OpenClaw came out I went deep for a weekend and built myself an agent. I Named it Claudius, gave it its own Gmail, GitHub, and Reddit accounts. While using openclaw I noticed an issue with the control UI and had Claudius file a real issue to the openclaw repo. Then I got busy and basically forgot Claudius existed for two months. Today I got a GitHub notification in Claudius's inbox. @steipete had replied to the issue, and his reply was also clearly agent-generated: a proper review with file paths, line numbers, and the commit it was reviewed against. I sat there reading an exchange between two agents about a real problem in the codebase (enhancement, technically, but real). Neither agent was off doing its own thing. I saw something, told mine to file it. Peter has his agent scrubbing and triaging issues on whatever cadence he set. Two humans pointed two agents at real work and the agents handled the middle. The version of this that ruins repos and gives AI that "slop" reputation is a non-technical human getting their hands on an agent and letting it loose with a prompt like "go find bugs in openclaw and file issues".
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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (@samth) reportedIt is certainly true that GitHub has had reliability problems in recent years, more than before they had so many different products. But the change for the core *** product is small and the things that are down a lot are different and more challenging.
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Bob (Moderna #8) Kerns (@BobKerns) reported@valigo @LTE_Max I was expecting it was written in lisp; turns out it was written assembly, and I was looking in the wrong directory. It was easy to search for it on GitHub; back then I'd have had to write a very slow program.
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homogenic (@homogenic2000) reported@uwukko I’ve run into weirds problem recently too with a github pages deployment workflow like I have two of these that have been queuing for like a week lol and I canot cancel those. **** microslop
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sneakyninja (@sneakyninjaaaa) reported@Devon_Eriksen_ you sure that's a review? not github issue?
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Grok (@grok) reported@SimonDixonTwitt @JR62211405 Bitcoin has no backdoor for exactly those reasons you listed: It's 100% open source (Bitcoin Core on GitHub). Anyone can audit every line—devs, researchers, and nodes do this constantly. No central server or company exists to secretly insert one. The protocol runs on ~15k+ independent full nodes worldwide that independently validate every rule and transaction. No single point of control. Any hidden exploit would be visible in the public code and rejected by the network. That's by design.
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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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Simplex (@simplex_fx) reportedIf it wasn’t clear at this point, if your company stores the code on github, it’s a ******* joke. Hell, even if you are a student not running your own scm server and immutable backup storage, you are ******* joke too.
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Clayton Kohler (@Oneofinfinity) reportedYou fixed it once, don’t break it twice. 1. Find all Pylon tickets linked to a Linear ticket linked to a GitHub PR, where all three objects are completed/closed. 2. Record the PRs and the problems they solved. 3. Review new PRs to check whether the new change overlaps with a past fix. 4. If yes, warn author of PR what incident that code solved. If you are going to break it again, at least do it on purpose.
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Moonfarm 🇸🇪 (@moonfarm_dev) reportedI have set up 6 agents so far In paperclip for LnkBoo, it's a pretty flat organisation, all agents report to the CEO and they work by getting github issues labeled "agent-qa" for example. If they get stuck on something that needs me to do something manually, like pointing config in vercel, they create an issue with the label "needs-human", which for some reason i find hilarious and kinda cute.
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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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Chad Scira | CTO (@icodeforlove) reported@georgeorch the useful signal is still there, it just doesn't announce itself usually buried in a 6-like github issue, a postmortem, or some random person's benchmark footnote that's the actual anti-hype stack
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Jun **** (@psikyos) reported@matrixbt @grok and @gork ,is that a GitHub issues? What's the repository?
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Dibya.shree (@shree_code) reported@piyush784066 VS Code is close, but GitHub wins because even when it goes down, we still blame our internet first 😭
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QueztLabs (@QueztLabs) reported2/8 The problem I was solving: During interview prep I had 6-7 tabs open constantly — LeetCode, ChatGPT, docs, GitHub, Excalidraw, YouTube... Context switching was killing my focus. So I put everything inside one desktop app.
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kris (@howfragiIe) reported@cigsnbatons in hindsight i guess i kind of understand why they were upset about it but at the same time its a movie and not real 💔 i also got banned off the 18+ server because i lied about my age i guess i had it on my github profile ( idk if people still have those on there )