alt Hacker NewsGitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
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Can't wait for the Graphite/Cursor alternative (Origin) to become available. Actions being down for an hour in the middle of the US East workday is crazy. It's super frustrating to be an enterprise customer of Github, seems like we don't get any dedicated resources or additional stability. At this point our only option is self-host github enterprise or move away.
Nothing like the old "everything is normal" to only be corrected 8 minutes later it is actually still down and then 2 hours later they are still working on it.
Aug 06, 2026 - 16:27 UTC - Update - Pages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
Aug 06, 2026 - 16:19 UTC - Update - Pages is operating normally.
There's a reason I'm browsing HN right now. Dead in the water.
Incident number 6 for the month of August, notably on August 6th. This pattern does not bode well.
Soon we can start posting "GitHub {x} is up!" instead, that's becoming more news-worthy lol. I know they like to blame AI/scaling, but really they are owned by one of the main hyperscalers, so I find that excuse kind of weak..
WTF. Outage every month if not multiple. Even for paying enterprise plans.
Also, doesn't even have RAG offering.
The speed at which GitHub is tanking their reputation is fascinating
How did they get Github Pages into “degraded performance”? Aren’t those just CDN stored static pages?
Broken for almost 4 hours.
So, Github Actions is currently at two nines of uptime?
Are we even surprised anymore? Since microsoft (the IBM of its time) have taken this over all I can say is ... piss up ... brewery.
Did Microsoft fire all the people working on the GitHub features people actually use?
If anybody is looking for alternatives, self host Woodpecker is really easy and it's a very capable CI/CD https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/intro
Are there any other CI providers that offer free cloud-hosted Windows runners?
Or has Microsoft made sure (through Windows licensing terms and pricing) that it's not possible to compete with their own CI offering?
Edit: CircleCI seems to offer 750 minutes/month (whereas GitHub offers 1000 minutes/month).
I am having their issues, also... Anyway this guys are great!
Github Actions are rapidly becoming an argument against dogfooding into your critical path.
This has been preventing me from merging a PR for over an hour. I'm really tired of the constant outages GitHub has
Was? Still is
Very frustrating, nothing more I can add at this point.
Still twiddling thumbs over here
So, it's a normal Thursday?
Ever since Microsoft has taken this over are we even surprised by the downtime anymore? Piss up ... brewery ...
Someone needs to work on improving the way Actions deals with resource exhaustion like this. Today it exploded all the CI jobs with "failed" and an inscrutable message about "The job was not acquired by Runner of type hosted even after multiple attempts" then "Internal server error". It should say "Timed out due to no runner available, our apologies, try again later, or pay $$$ here to get priority for runners".
Ah. So that's why.
man.. again?
Do we need to say this again? GitHub appears that they are never going to improve. Just look at how GitHub spark has deprecated, now we have this.
After 6 years of this nonsense of "centralizing everything on GitHub", it is not a good idea at all.
You might as well self host like I said before [0].
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I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.