GitHub Down Again?

(github.com)

50 points | by ridowk 39 minutes ago ago

36 comments

  • mkagenius 10 minutes ago

    Why doesn't https://www.githubstatus.com reflect this accurately?

    I usually check this and then doubt my network might be at fault if they don't show outages.

    • skissane 8 minutes ago

      I think that page only displays outages if some manager at GitHub decides it is "sufficiently major" to display there.

      GitHub has outages all the time without that page showing anything.

      Another comment pointed to a third party alternative which is more accurate – https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ – but that alternative isn't showing an outage right now either, since I believe it is being fed by GitHub.com's incident data.

  • mat0 2 minutes ago

    Yes. It is incredibly frustrating that everything is hosted on GitHub nowadays. I wanted to install Bazzite (a Linux distro!) and I cannot download their ISO, I cannot download their recommended partition tool, I cannot even download Rufus to start formatting some drives. And then you go and check their status page and you get the "all good nothing wrong here". So annoying

  • esFran 12 minutes ago

    I'd recommend the free (as in freedom) Git alternative to everyone: Codeberg. Super lightweight, without that vicious circle of knowing your code is being used to train AI. Free for hobby projects, and reasonably viable for professional ones.

    • dutchbart 5 minutes ago

      No, not free as in freedom. LLM-assisted coding is prohibited and everything MUST be open-source. So not viable for all (hobby) projects.

    • aurareturn 6 minutes ago

      People who migrate away from Github, what makes you think they're more reliable? All Git services are prone to massive surges in commit volume due to AI agents. At least if Github goes down, your boss is not going to blame you.

      I'd rather stay in Github and maybe use another service purely as backup.

      • Shorel a minute ago

        Their terms of service forbid AI agents or even AI created code to be submitted there.

      • atiedebee 3 minutes ago

        Codeberg specifically has a policy against projects that are maintained heavily with AI tooling, so I don't think they would have that problem.

    • Muhammad523 10 minutes ago

      You're now my friend just because you said "free as in freedom"

      • PalmPilotProMax 4 minutes ago

        Join us now and share the software;

        You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free~~~

    • dizhn 2 minutes ago

      I love and use Forgejo which they are both running and now developing within their ecosystem but development is so slow and such basic things are missing that one cannot help but think perhaps they should get some LLM assistance. At this rate they are very likely to end up a historical footnote.

  • shimms 36 minutes ago

    They seem to be having an issue with release downloads (https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/212407).

    Our CI is broken at the moment, unable to download tools used in various checks (gitleaks, etc).

  • borisgolovnev a few seconds ago

    Regular reminder that if you just need a remote to collaborate with others and don't need stars commit graphs and all that social coding aspects, you can just host your git repo yourself on any cheap VPS.

  • JanneVee 17 minutes ago

    504 from Firefox not logged in and works from Safari which is logged in. CDN error perhaps?

  • faangguyindia 17 minutes ago

    Github being host on Azure, this is really bad PR for their cloud and technical prowess.

    • cube00 13 minutes ago

      > this is really bad PR

      No such thing as bad PR these days, 24 hours later and we're on to the next thing, that's assuming people even saw it in their doom scroll feed. Gone are the days when everyone watches the same TV news or reads the same newspaper.

  • Kholin 28 minutes ago

    > 504 Gateway Time-out

    > The server didn't respond in time.

    • alfiedotwtf 22 minutes ago

      504 for the past hour, status says all green

      • Kholin 17 minutes ago

        Still got 504 if I'm not logged in

    • fragmede 16 minutes ago

      Interesting to see the black text on white background page.

  • chilli_axe 9 minutes ago

    Seems to be back now.

  • jhgkblv 14 minutes ago

    seriously, what do you guys need to finally get off github? being on github is a huge liability these days.

    • ridowk 8 minutes ago

      The issue isn't about us, but there are a lot of projects that are happening on github. I wanted to take a look at the sources of a random lib when i realized it was down, it wasn't about hosting some of my stuff

    • Lucasoato 11 minutes ago

      Solid open source alternatives?

      • JoshStrobl 4 minutes ago

        Forgejo is a solid open source alternative.

  • ridowk 38 minutes ago

    Their status page (lol) says it's working (https://www.githubstatus.com/) but i get a 504 time-out when trying to access repositories

  • bagels 19 minutes ago

    It's been down for >30 minutes. Status page of course says everything is fine. 504 when downloading releases, so CI and Terraform don't work.

  • Brajeshwar 22 minutes ago

    We seem to be seeing `Github Down` pretty regularly but that seems to be mostly the public facing ones. In the last one year that I have been using Enterprise Github regularly, I don't remember it being down anytime.

    • beberlei 21 minutes ago

      Hosted or even cloud?

  • AyanamiKaine 14 minutes ago

    Man, it happens more and more that I can’t work because nix can’t fetch something from git or my elixir build fails because it needs to fetch a release from GitHub.

    Even if I change my CI to something else, all the dependencies depend on GitHub (Not like there exists a cheap/free alternative where nix packages could be hosted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

  • ipsum2 14 minutes ago

    I have an agent automatically commit code hundreds of times to a private repo every day. sorry for contributing to the ddos.

  • countWSS 35 minutes ago

    Can't see commit pages.

  • dom96 26 minutes ago

    Works for me

  • BoingBoomTschak 24 minutes ago

    Just another day in "Azure code", I guess.

  • DishyDev 35 minutes ago

    Yep same, looks like another outage