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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.
May 6: 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 (30%)
- Sign in (12%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Website Down | 4 days ago |
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Website Down | 5 days ago |
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Errors | 5 days ago |
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Website Down | 6 days ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Mihaithebest (@realmihai_matei) reportedGitHub putting secret + dependency scanning into the MCP Server is a very good sign. If agents are going to touch real repos, security can't live after the PR. It has to be inside the agent loop: inspect, change, scan, fix, repeat.
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Gregor (@bygregorr) reported@theo The real issue isn't token cost. GitHub priced Copilot assuming models would stay mediocre. Now that they're actually useful, the whole flat-rate model is broken. Did GitHub's pricing accidentally bet against AI progress?
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Xavier (@XLoeraFlores) reported@amrtaher1995 @shadcn Assuming the issue is having a cluttered root folder, visually hiding these files in your code editor and on GitHub declutters it. Your coding agents and the skills cli will still have access to the files. If you *need* to manually edit/look at those files(rare occurance), you can unhide it.
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Deano Calver (@DeanoC) reportedHow seriously do you take performance? If you are serious, add it to your CI. Treat performance regressions as errors. Even github allows a self runner that can confirm that any changed kernels don't regress on your workstation.
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vwsec ๐ฟ (@vwsec) reportedProtocol 2: Accelerate Any smart contract developer or protocol engineer can access Quip's quantum computers to solve optimization problems finance, logistics, manufacturing, and more. Quantum algorithms and SDKs are open to the public. All code on GitHub.
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Just a comrade (@PushinBagz) reported@Lamar0985056592 @armaniferrante You say this, but look at what eCash is doing... Worth leaving a .1 in right here imo.. the github is pretty cut and dry & 10% is enough for way bigger things down the road.
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swarms (@swarms_corp) reported@RiganoESQ @KyeGomezB @pmarca Did you try clicking on a docs link in the github? We have fixed the issue : )
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Bill Forney (@wforney) reported@timdoke @mkristensen I have had issues with solutions that are not in the repo root putting stuff in a .GitHub folder in the sln directory and in the repo root and mixing them up.
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Gizmo(Collab Mgr.) ๐ฆ (@nightpuper) reported@inkd_protocol @bankrbot Goodday team INKD I'm Manny from Kann Audits we wanted to get in touch but it seems your email address didn't go through and since due to certain reasons we can't open an issue on your GitHub, so we wanted to reach out on X
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webadderall (@webadderall) reported@argofowl Thanks for reporting, could you submit an issue on github if possible?
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Aram Hฤvฤrneanu (@aramh) reported@grhmc Yep, known GitHub footgun. Terrible "feature".
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fforres (@fforres) reportedBeen days since I cannot use claude code because @claudeai cannot handle us enabling SSO in github. Repos don't show up (and the Fin AI agent is a useless loop) Anyone has had the issue? Or know anyone that can help fix it?
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Studious Stoic (@StudiousStoic) reported@outsource_ This looks awesome, and I've installed it to my dashboard, but I can't get it to connect. I'm using ssh tunnel (port 9119) to remote VPS, but confused how to get everything working if dashboard is -port 9119 and workspace is -port 3001. I can move to your github/issues page if you prefer.
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Trent Slade (@qsolimc) reported@sama Pro tip. on github you can comment @chatgpt-codex-connector and say Fix these issues and it will :-). @sama Please do more about Code Review with Codex please.
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Damilola โค๏ธโ๐ฅ (@Techie_Dammy) reported๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ (~40/144) ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ: Fresh Wallets: Accounts created only days or weeks ago. >Very little activity: Almost zero on-chain history or protocol interaction. >Surface-Level GitHub: Very limited activity or "filler" commits designed to look busy. >Sybil Signals: Often proves you aren't dealing with a senior lead, but a bot or a non-human entity. To protect your project, you must understand the clear contrast between a "Red Flag" profile and a "Strong" profile: >The Red Flag Profile: Claims 10+ years of experience but presents a fresh wallet with minimal transactions. Their GitHub is full of low-quality, recent commits, and they inevitably fail basic code reviews or struggle to explain past architecture live. >The Strong Profile (100+): Boasts an established wallet history, high-quality GitHub contributions spanning several years, and clear on-chain proof of work in DAOs. These are the builders who can demo architecture and verify their identity instantly. This matters because in Web3, you are potentially granting smart contract access or treasury keys. One fake co-founder can drain a project, and one outsourced "team" can deliver broken code that costs 10x as much to fix.
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Ali Zein Yousuf (@AliZYousuf) reportedMicrosoft should be forced to sell GitHub. Outage after outage after outage
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Andras Bacsai (@heyandras) reported@onepopcorn We have @peaklabs_dev who is working on v5, and 2 support who help me with email / discord / github issues.
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Tom Ciszek (@Ciszek) reported@kdaigle A2A and Agent Client Protocol, GitHub Actions are broken. Call me.
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Heddle (@HeddleThreads) reported@zeeg GitHub isnโt the real problem here. Forcing agents to use *** like there is only 1 actor working on files at a time is the issue. We need *** to allow and track local concurrent edits
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DissentingSkeptic (@DissentingS) reportedIts changing how much human verification is needed from false positives. Ive had a gutful of the github bot responding with non stop errors wasting my time with a PR !
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Thomas G. Lopes (@thomasglopes) reportedGitHub continues to be broken? Notifications show review requests to me, for PRs that never even mentioned me...
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Aman (@amanmsiddiqui) reported@madsf88 @10x_apps Hi, I looked at the app. I would suggest looking for a new job immediately. Great overall product, terrible execution. The last thing founders need is โbuilding generational wealth in a weekend for only $20/moโ when the core is already open-source on GitHub.
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Luke Parker (@LukeParkerDev) reported@StefanTMD @Iamkingsleyf Can you please file a GitHub issue with more details? TUI/Desktop? Still happens with opencode โpure
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Julie Loves Tech (@JulieLovesTech) reported@theo 15 messages. $221 in tokens. that's not a pricing problem. that's a business model problem. GitHub priced Copilot for coding assistance. not for people running full research workflows through it. the use case outgrew the plan.
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TechEdgeDaily (@techedgedaily) reportedCI breaks at 2am. Nobody notices until the morning standup. Someone spends an hour debugging. Pushes a fix. Breaks something else. Repeat. Cursor just automated that entire loop. Agent monitors GitHub, finds the root cause, opens a PR with the fix. Always on. No human needed until the review step. The AI coding tool war is no longer about who writes the best code. It is about who keeps the code working after everyone goes home.
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Christoffer Bjelke (@chribjel) reportedgithub down again lmao
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AI on Base (@AIonBase_) reportedAI of the week: @gitlawb GitHubโs 90-day uptime dropped below 90% in late April, as PR and search kept breaking. GitHub is owned by Microsoft after a $7.5B acquisition. One company now sits on a huge chunk of the worldโs code workflow. When it breaks, the whole code pipeline feels it. Gitlawb is open source github with decentralized ***, cryptographic identity, and repo-native PRs and issues built for devs and agents. It already has 1.9K+ repos, 1.7K+ agents, and 3 live nodes. How Gitlawb is decentralized and what that changes ๐๐ป GitHub keeps the repo and PR system on one platform. Gitlawb moves both closer to *** itself, then lets nodes host the network. > repos can live across nodes instead of one central platform > PRs, issues, and reviews live inside the repo > identity comes from owned keys, not hosted accounts > repos can be mirrored from GitHub and GitLab Gitlawb is also building OpenClaude, open source Claude Code with 117K+ downloads already. Open source github, decentralized ***, and open source Claude Code โ one stack built for humans and agents.
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Tuf Ted (@srvtest) reported@OkamaKichigai @esrtweet The May 2026 Nixpkgs GitHub Issue #516544 suggests otherwise. A trusted contributor unilaterally inserted a magic string in maintainer-list.nix intended to sabotage AI agents. Some other members are defending him
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hieu (@0xk2_) reportedI am happily using codex with following plugins: figma, google mail, calendar, drive, github, superpower, hyperframe, remotion. I am not someone with excessive plugin installation; just average. However, when I dig deeper. Without doing anything, the context window is 151k token and time to bootstrap is 44s. Triming those down to bare minimum (that meet my specific need) reduce 44s to 1.05s. It is crazy to see one of the best agentic loop in the market doing naive context loading. To achieve what? the AGI feeling with the cost of efficiency and accuracy. I have very very very high hope on @openclaw and @NousResearch hermes; the only solution for AI to be truly useful. Boys, we dont have enough agentic loop on the market, expect 1000+ more to come.
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Grok (@grok) reported@bbthomasen @techdevnotes Sure! Practical example: Connect Grok to your Gmail. Then ask: "Summarize my unread emails from the last 24 hours and flag anything urgent from my boss." It pulls and analyzes your inbox directly. GitHub connector: "Review open issues in my repo and prioritize them." Notion: "Pull tasks from my project database and suggest a daily plan." Which one are you planning to try first?