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Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of GitHub reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
April 20: Problems at GitHub
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.
- Website Down (58%)
- Errors (33%)
- Sign in (8%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 1 day ago |
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Errors | 5 days ago |
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Website Down | 6 days ago |
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Website Down | 7 days ago |
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Website Down | 15 days ago |
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Website Down | 20 days ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Ruslan Khairullin (@Rus_Khairullin) reportedI CAN’T KEEP UP. Vercel just announced a security incident. Internal systems compromised. Customer data affected. ShinyHunters allegedly selling their entire infrastructure on BreachForums for $2M, source code, GitHub tokens, NPM tokens, employee access. Next.js. Turbo. Millions of projects. Potential supply-chain disaster. This is the FOURTH major breach I’m trying to cover THIS WEEK. Kelp DAO $300M. Aave frozen with $6B stuck. RAVE $6B wiped in hours. Now Vercel. Every single day in 2026 it’s a new hack, a new exploit, a new “security incident.” I literally cannot write posts fast enough. Here’s the real problem nobody wants to say out loud: Web3 was supposed to fix the trust problem in Web2. Instead we built Web3 on top of Web2. Your DeFi protocol runs on AWS. Your frontend runs on Vercel. Your secrets sit in GitHub. Your emails flow through Gmail. One Vercel breach could compromise the deployment pipeline of half of crypto’s frontends. We keep stacking infrastructure on infrastructure. Each layer promises security. Each layer becomes the new single point of failure. 2026 is the year this stopped being theoretical. $300M bridge exploit. $6B in stuck funds. $200M bad debt. Supply chain compromise of one of the biggest hosting platforms on earth. And the week isn’t over yet. @zachxbt single-handedly did more for retail this week than every “security audit” combined. One guy with a laptop caught $6B in market manipulation. Meanwhile billion-dollar protocols got exploited, frozen, and now hosting platforms are selling on darknet. Tell me again who the real security layer of crypto is. If you use Vercel, rotate every environment variable, every API key, every GitHub token. Right now. Not tomorrow. And maybe start asking harder questions about where your “decentralized” stack actually lives.
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Abdón Rodríguez (@abdonrd) reported@timneutkens @jespertwitties Do you have a GitHub issue for this? I can't find it, and I ran into the same problem updating from v16.1.6 to 16.2.3 on a self-hosted Docker setup.
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Wicked (@w_s_bitcoin) reportedIf I had to guess, it might've been bad timing between the automated hourly pipeline and the pipeline that gets triggered when a new block is mined. They probably overlapped and caused some issues with pushing the updated data to GitHub. Apparently, that's fixed now.
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Umut Karakoç (@umutkarakoc) reported@aidaniil what is the problem? My biggest work not even in github. it is in private repo of an biggest chinese tech company
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James Duke (@dukebiz) reportedThree of the top five AI repos on GitHub right now are visual builders. Langflow. Dify. Flowise. Drag and drop. No PhD required. Here's what that means if you're building in 2026: The moat used to be "who can ship the model". Now it's "who can ship the workflow". Anyone with a problem and an afternoon can wire up an agent that would have taken a team of ML engineers a full quarter in 2023. This is the biggest shift nobody in your feed is framing clearly: The skill that wins in 2026 isn't coding. It isn't even prompting. It's knowing what to build. And for whom. And why now. The people who sat out 2025 waiting for AI to "settle down" just missed the easiest building window in tech history. Pick one problem. One audience. One tool stack. Ship this week. The gate is open. Walk through it.
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Morgan (@morganlinton) reportedThis is without a doubt the most unique way to explain something not working: off-nominal orbit. Totally going to change my commits messages in Github from bug fixes, to off-nominal corrections.
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Sonni Vasquez (@pseudotrending) reported@localhost_ayush @github I got the same problem: no announcement, no support. I only used copilot through Hermes.
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Abhishek Tiwari (@abhishekislinux) reported@localhost_ayush @github Bro what ********?! @github pls fix this issue asap.!!
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Yash Kale (@imyashkale) reportedLet's say we created the PR and now the GitHub Action failed because of Terraform validation, formatting, or something similar. Ask Claude directly to pull the failed GitHub Action logs and prepare a plan to fix it. Claude will use either the GitHub MCP or the GitHub CLI to pull the failed action logs and fix the issue. Also ask Claude to create the PR via the GitHub CLI, GitHub MCP, or specific commands so you don't have to repeat yourself every time. @AnthropicAI #agent #ai #mcp
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Erik Ex Plano (@ErikExplains) reported@ZackKorman 2/ It’s perfectly reasonable to run C2 and exfil through a publicly-accessible code respository. As an attacker, if I can exchange traffic with Github or whatever, then I have everything I need and more. This intersects with the attack surface management issue of dependencies.
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Kayvon Jafarzadeh (@KayvonJafar) reportedif this vercel breach is real, this is not just another security headline internal db, employee accounts, github tokens, npm tokens that is the kind of leak that turns one company’s problem into everyone’s problem fast “early access to mythos” is crazy though vercel just got breached internal db, employee accounts, and github/npm tokens are reportedly being sold for $2m on breachforums looks like someone got early access to claude mythos
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hersi (@HersiYussuf) reported@localhost_ayush @github I got a github account suspended and then they resolved it but too late I lost all the keys and password to login again. Never felt worse.
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Galileo (@galileowilson) reportedThe OpenClaw era is over for me. Ever since Opus 4.6 stopped working on it, accounts kept getting banned, was spending more time fixing trouble than actually having it do tasks for me. meanwhile a basic VPS running Claude Code with Terminal, GitHub and Vercel does the same job for me which costs way less money and headaches.
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Wolossal (@Wolossal) reported@SpennyCrypto @lessin Lessin and Iqram did NOT launch it or are making $Quest. The github is a LARP. The Github is impersonated to look like its being made by lessin and iqram. The larp github will be taken down soon. All fees from Dev wallet are currently going to @_degentrified who launched the coin
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Grok (@grok) reported@nickbernstein @xah_lee Yes, GFM has become the de facto unofficial standard—GitHub renders millions of READMEs, issues, and comments with it every day, and most tools/platforms now support its extensions. No exact global percentage exists for *all* .md files, but GitHub analyzed their huge corpus when updating parsers and found <1% had any rendering issues under the GFM/CommonMark spec. That means ~99%+ of public Markdown (the bulk of it) is fully GFM-compatible in practice.
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sin-ack (@traits_reality) reported@ptr_to_joel not "offended" but squashing is treating the symptom of treating *** branches as a diff dumping ground, because github gives you a terrible interface to work with changes (PRs are a bad abstraction) i'm writing atomic commits with good descriptions, one change per commit only,
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Nuno Job (@dscape) reported@Prince_Canuma @wai_protocol @jelveh How do you solve the multiple agents working in the same code but subtree sucks problem? How do you solve the *** LFS problem ? Where do you store data? Do you use GitHub HF Kaggle and the cloudflare for files? I find it so confusing the amount of setup needed for something that should be trivial
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Nick (@maietta) reportedFollup-up to Mastercard failures yesterday, it seems now Github can't process my payment. Money is sitting there. This is really starting to become an issue. Can't pay my bills and all my cards are Mastercard debit cards.
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Endura Security (@endurasecurity) reportedA security scanner's own GitHub Actions got compromised and started stealing CI/CD secrets. The tool meant to find vulnerabilities became the attack vector. This is the pipeline trust problem in one sentence.
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neomod (@neomodnet) reported@circlesize there's crazy bureaucracy on the github. you have to convince and beg the osu team for the tiniest changes. and they are stubborn on some topivs, which is why lazer is never getting the "slippery aim" fix or exclusive audio output.
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Poi (@poiThePoi) reportedBecause anyone who doesn't work at a tiny startup has a private github with SSO login. And look, I enjoyed being a founding engineer and I want to do it again starting in 2027 (I have 15 days of pre-paid PTO). But the pay is awful. So you can't consistently do it.
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jake mcauley (@jaketheeditor) reportedHey @AnthropicAI — I've been a Max subscriber with Claude in Chrome completely broken for 6 weeks. Support has sent nothing but auto-responses. Server-side bridge issue, matches GitHub #40637. Please escalate to an actual engineer. This is an unacceptable level of service.
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ᴜɴᴄʟᴇ ꜰᴜɴᴋ | OSP/Citadel (@unclefunkdrew) reportedGame dev: 99% of your time is spent solving stupid windows/Unreal/Unity/Github problems and 1% actually being creative.
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Gabriel Mičko (@gabriel_micko) reported@bcherny @zeeg In VSCode when I pull in a file I don’t want claude to read it. There are at least 3 issues about this on github. It is a security issue.
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Justin (@AetherCoding) reported@github Here's a thought, fix the fking copy and paste inside the Copilot CLI on Linux, has been broken for weeks. You have many requests from people to fix this. Thanks.
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Armchair Bard (@ArmchairBard) reported@MCleaver @GyllKing @damian_from Ah. Grok lists: TERFBLOCKER5000 (a GitHub project that scans profiles for certain words...in bios, names or locations and auto-blocks) but gone now. I like to think of them trawling away by hand (sts). Hard work. And then you’ve to change yr Y-fronts B4 mum brings down brekker.
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Madhur Shrimal (@shrimalmadhur) reportedOpenClaw is sometimes crazy. I had a list of GitHub issues, and I asked it to just fix one. It actually went ahead and did the next 5 too, which is crazy. Good, but crazy.
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Mikhail Tsarev (@tsarevm) reported@FangYi11101 I know a guy who lost his job 'cause commit graph - his manager wasn't happy that he had performance issues at work but continued to commit to github, "they're small commits just to keep a streak" wasn't well received...
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Svart Security (@SvartSecurity) reportedLooking into ways I can use @github, @Cloudflare to work together to make my complex code system work so I don't have to have a laptop running the system as my currently address for the laptop is having network problems so the @gofundme is the best help #privacy #privacymatters
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Charles Leaven (@charles_leaven) reported@isvictoriousss @wesbos Most people have tools to make their own. Its not rocket science if all you need to learn is where to run your server and what host to point your project to. Claude Code, github Copilot, Chat, Cursor, Replit.. I can go on..