Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

submitted by mikebo+(OP) on 2023-06-29 17:42:02 | 306 points 184 comments
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Not loading for me at all, but status page shows green across the board.

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>>mikebo+(OP)
I can't push from my desktop, and https://github.com/ spins in the browser

>>wcarss+U
Status page loads for me, it just incorrectly says all green: https://www.githubstatus.com/

>>mikebo+(OP)
Seems to be a fairly catastrophic failure. https://github.com/ fails to load. https://www.githubstatus.com/ shows all green as of this writing. Nothing on the twitter yet https://twitter.com/githubstatus

edit: The outage is now acknowledged on the status page https://www.githubstatus.com/

edit: EU folks appear to have things working so it looks like a regional network fault

>>mikebo+(OP)
So down right now...I wonder why they still use https://www.githubstatus.com/ that reports everything is alright when it's not!

>>mikebo+(OP)
Won't load for me.

https://githubstatus.com shows all green, but it's not the case...

Just flipped to red.

>Investigating - We are currently experiencing an outage of GitHub products and are investigating.

>Jun 29, 2023 - 17:52 UTC

>>stefan+y1
https://downdetector.com/status/github/ is a far more reliable source - it's just powered by user reports and often will show issues long before the status page ever receives an update.

>>klysm+s1
GitHub pages are down too, although funnily enough https://pages.github.com is up

>>klysm+s1
Pages hosted on github pages also show the unicorn 503 page. However, https://pages.github.com/?(null) loads.

>>mikebo+(OP)
https://codeberg.org open source GitHub without Microsoft (it's a German non-profit). You can also host your own lightweight https://forgejo.org instance

In case anyone questions whether centralizing literally everything onto GitHub is a good idea, at least as a mirror for things you depend on

I think I'll believe them when they say it's down, no offense.

>>Macuyi+t8
There's some nice tooling these days for this. E.g. https://firehydrant.com/ and https://incident.io both make this a faster, more embedded process.

>>mikebo+(OP)
Unsurprising. There is at least one outage with GitHub every single month. [0]

>>antoin+J5
Something that I've found that helps me with impostor syndrome is to read and talk about it.

Check out this Ted talk from the co-founder of Atlassian.

>>Commit+Sa
Sudden self-awareness of bias?

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