alt Hacker NewsGitHub down again? no PR access
Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't
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I encourage everyone to switch to Forgejo. We ditched GitHub and could not be happier. The experience is smoother, faster and distraction-free.
Our runners are faster, our CI is smoother than ever. Transitioning was a matter of a few hours, which we took as a fun hackaton.
Cannot even merge code, this is the limit for me. We are prioritising migration to a different platform and this time going to decouple CI - right now we have too many points of failure on one vendor.
The exponential growth they are having right now is absolutely insane. I would caution against assuming its an easy problem, or that anyone else has demonstrated an ability to handle this level of scale/growth any better.
In May they had to solve for 30x growth overnight, and I would guess its closer to 100x by now. The reality is a centralized solution like this may no longer be a viable option with the scale of code generation.
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
They're struggling to maintain a single nine these days.
It is not working at all, I can not load any repo pages.
Github.com's promise is that it can be the central broker of open source code because it is reliable.
That promise hasn't been kept recently.
That said, Github is hard to displace and it is similar to the era of the Twitter Fail Whales. It was a sign of growth that couldn't be properly managed but there was not viable alternative.
from a few months ago but interesting insights:
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-availa...
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...
Whatever it is, it seems to be getting worse: started with pull requests and Actions being down, now I can't even list my repos. Might be the worst one yet.
Is this GitHub's way of testing how many of you are managing your PRs via agents?
I thought by the near-unanimous distaste for IIS we would have learned our lesson about making Microsoft products a central part of infrastructure, but evidently I was wrong.
I shit on Microsoft a lot here, but it’s not because the workers are dumb or that all their products are “bad”, because they’re not. It’s because the company very clearly is only ever focused on “the next marketable product”, and will let their existing products rot.
You can see this with a lot of Microsoft products. Windows NT was a a pretty cool OS/kernel at its time. NTFS was a pretty neat filesystem when it was new. They employ smart people for enough time to make a big headline, then make no effort to keep those products any good.
Alright! Let's go make some coffee and get fresh air
Anyone else getting "Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time?"
It's been a downward spiral since covid.
Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since.
I'm seeing "Merge status cannot be loaded" when attempting to merge a PR.
It's a shame I had to go to HN to check if I was the only one instead of relying on their status page that they link.
githubstatus.com has been updated with an incident now:
> Update - We are seeing an approximate 20% error rate across numerous experiences including Pull Requests, Issues, and others. Investigations are currently under way and we will be posting updates as they become available Aug 17, 2026 - 13:45 UTC
Is it a day that ends in Y?
Well, seems that AI vibecoding is working it's magic!
"AI will destroy SaaS"
"No not like that!"
Yep, started with PR changes not being visible, but now can't load entire repos. I see the pink unicorn.
Damn it, this is pissing me off actually.
GitHub is too important to fail, and they obviously can't fix their up-time problem. Shouldn't they open-source core and/or problematic components and ask for public to fix it? this is not sustainable. It's literally blocking development/productivity worldwide.
tenth per day, I almost think my network is noet working.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330684
June 17, 2023: Dohmke says Copilot will write 80% of code:
https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/github-copilot
Slop code is written and pushed ...
Aug 11, 2025: Dohmke leaves the sinking ship:
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/github-ceo-thomas...
This is a true AI victory.
+1
Yes, in India.
yes in Bulgaria
I'm experiencing as well.
yes in germany
yes in Brazil
lmao clown show
clown show
why isnt nyone using the alternatives like gitlawb?
Help encourage alternatives by trying Gitlab.com or Codeberg.org or Tangled.org or others, and please star some projects there to help motivate more options.
Self-promo links below if you would like to star a few of mine good for developers.
https://gitlab.com/architecture-decision-record
https://gitlab.com/ways-of-working
https://gitlab.com/coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure