alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
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> Disruption with Gemini 2.5 Pro model
> Disruption with Grok Code Fast 1 in Copilot
> Incident with Copilot Grok Code Fast 1
> Claude Opus 4 is experiencing degraded performance
It doesn't seem fair to blame Github for this? There's nothing they can do about it?
A graph I have to question is even accurate.
> Across 170 days with at least one incident · worst day Thu, Nov 20, 2025 (1.1 days)
1.1 days total how is that possible? Scrolling over that day doesn't indicate the math behind the scenes - 1.3 hours single bullet point.
Also Nov 19 has a bullet point 1.3 day outage but total is 8.1 hours
Contrast between official [0] and third party status pages [1] is huge. How their terms of service for SLA are legal if they are so different from real world usage of their product? I really like GitHub and their services but every time when it’s broken and their status page is green something screams inside me.
[0] https://www.githubstatus.com/ [1] https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
If we had this for Anthropic (and I an a happy Claude Max subscriber mind you) I wonder how bad this would look. Probably worse.
This idea has been around!
I made this one in January to help slice and dice uptime by incident category.
The last time one of these were posted it had pre-MS acquisition pegged at 100.0% and everyone ate it up.
This one is including external LLM services as apart of GitHub being “down”.
Far fewer outages during the weekends. Perfect, wasn't gonna do any work then anyway.
This is one of the most creative idea I've seen this year. Tasteful and clever. Bravo!
I didn't know azure was this bad, completely changed my opinion on their cloud offerings
Funny to see this closely match contribution graphs with effectively no downtime on weekends.
If you think that Github sucks, make something else and try to do it better, or don't use it.
Would be funny if you host it on github pages.
Setup my self-hosted Forgejo last night. Very pleased so far.
For 30th of April, 2026 it shows it was down 1.0 days of 2.6 days (minor incident) :)
If anyone wants a aggregated status page for github, cloud & AI services.
Feature request: best streak
I wonder how well this corolates with azure incidents. Especially for the US regions.
I don't really understand why this is happening at this scale, it's not like they just became broke and can't afford a proper server... can someone explain?
Would be interesting to see if this correlated with their release cycles.
This design is perfect irony. I love it.
The memes are really painful now. I feel for the team that's is trying to survive underwater.
Interesting, no outages on weekends
I like this more than I expected. The intensity gradient is a nice touch too.
Guess where AI Coding entered the picture
It is funny how weekends are almost always up!
All these companies brag about being hyperscalers and cannot scale github.
Similarly, i see google releasing advancement after advancement in LLM yet i see antigravity sub where people are crying all time.
double entendre: Is it load based or github-employee based that weekends are sparser.
or just a multifactor of both.
can you correlate this to data on # of commits, actions, etc?
Well done.
Another reminder that a self hosted git repository would have more uptime than GitHub and centralizing everything to GitHub was a very bad idea. [0]
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"Good job, Microsoft, amazing uptime."
Clearly their team needs more LLM usage.
Please tell me this makes sense
This website has no overused ai-generated animations and... I quite enjoy it. The original website[1] has a fade-in animation, big round cards, shadows, all the jazz you can think of, it's there.
This site is very readable, very honest and sober. I don't need to sift through buzzwords to figure out tiny details.
Thank you, OP!
Every time one of these vibe coded meme sites gets posted there’re endless comments about how it’s not actually because of load, the GitHub team is shit, their tech stack is shit, Microsoft is shit, Azure is shit, etc.
Just compare the GitHub status page for public GitHub vs the enterprise cloud pages.
Enterprise has much better numbers and I’ve personally can’t remember the last time there was an outage that prevented me from doing work.
If the problems didn’t revolve around load, I’d expect to see the same uptime problems reflected on the enterprise offering.