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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.
May 6: 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 (30%)
- Sign in (12%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Website Down | 4 days ago |
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Website Down | 4 days ago |
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Website Down | 5 days ago |
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Errors | 5 days ago |
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Website Down | 6 days ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Jason Nguyen (@jasonngsx) reported2. The GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipeline "You are a principal DevOps engineer who has built CI/CD pipelines for 50+ SaaS products and knows exactly which pipeline steps fail silently in production, because a broken pipeline ships broken code. I need a complete GitHub Actions workflow for continuous deployment. Do the following: - Run tests on every pull request (unit, integration, linting) - Build and tag Docker image with commit SHA and latest - Push to container registry (I'll tell you which one) - Deploy to production on merge to main (zero-downtime rolling deploy) - Rollback trigger if health check fails post-deploy - Slack notification on deploy success or failure - Secrets management using GitHub Secrets (never hardcoded) - Cache node_modules / pip dependencies between runs Format as a complete .github/workflows/deploy.yml with comments explaining every job and step. My stack and registry: [PASTE HERE]"
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Ilya (@tryonelovee) reported@kettanaito the funny thing is that the design is the least important issue with github right now
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Gabriel Tiburcio (@tiburciogabriel) reportedJust realized I have not opened VSCode a single time today. Pushed 2 PRs, debugged a bunch of API issues. Validated a bunch of stuff e2e. Every code I look at is now through GitHub. Didn’t miss it. Sign of the times.
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Robert Cowherd (@bobcowherd) reported4/ GitHub is the most recoverable, but only partly. Source survives in any local clone. That's the good news. What doesn't survive: Issues, Actions secrets, branch protection rules, deploy keys, webhooks. Gone with the repo. 90-day soft-delete is best-effort, not contractual.
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Lior BD (@liorb_d) reportedThe issue with GitHub competitor discourse is that 99% of users don't want some fresh take on version control; We just want a version of Github that works
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ishaq farid (@ishaqfa82869556) reported- Still writes code, Still answers GitHub issues himself. He spent over 25 years building the compilers Big Tech is built on. Now he's openly building the one that could break NVIDIA. Bro absolutely Compiler 📷
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Jay-K (@jay_k) reportedWhat it does: Grok can connect to services like Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Slack, GitHub, Linear, Microsoft tools (Outlook, etc.), HubSpot, and more. It supports both native/official connectors and custom ones via MCP (a tool-use standard). Capabilities: Once connected, you can ask Grok things like "Summarize my unread emails," "Create a Notion page with today's notes," "Post a message in Slack," or "Check my GitHub issues." It works with scheduled tasks, voice agents, and responses API.
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Sean Rivard-Morton (@thunkoid) reported@egbennis Are you using github issues to track? Attaching all associated data to a jira ticket would be 🔥 Or slack, but that always seems to get noisy
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Merill Fernando (@merill) reported@janaka_a I dunno about Theo but I know @t3dotchat didn't have GitHub Copilot sign in when it launched. I had to fork it and add support and was using it that way
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Hopper (@Not_Ducked) reported@A_V_Tech @FreeCADNews I have been doing that. There are some talk of the issue I am having in GitHub but I can’t really figure out what they did to resolve the issue.
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Ridark (@ridark_eth) reported> be "student" (even if you aren't) > realize you're spending $9,000/year on software like a clown > GitHub Student Developer Pack: the ultimate cheat code > JetBrains, Figma, Canva, Notion --> all $0. you're welcome > Cloud credits: AWS, Azure, Google. free servers for everyone > MongoDB Atlas gives you $50 just for existing > Cursor Pro for 1 year: AI coding for free while others pay $20/mo > Amazon Prime: 6 months of free shipping and movies > 50% off Spotify, YT Premium, and Apple Music forever > Apple Education Store: cheaper Macs because you "study" > need a .edu email? find a friend or become an "eternal student" > $0 for 67+ subscriptions. just need one email address > saving thousands of dollars while the "pros" pay full price The software industry is built on subscriptions, but the .edu email is the glitch in the matrix.
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Abyzon (@Abyzonn) reported10-year-old from China was solving LeetCode problems while his class was playing games - a year later his GitHub was found by a recruiter from Singapore. Jarvis for $20 a month, a room at home, zero courses. He worked through every problem with AI - not copying solutions, but understanding how they work. 847 problems in a year, a rating higher than 78% of students after two years of university. The recruiter messaged his parents - a Singapore startup wants to pay him $3,000 a month for part-time code review. The parents replied that he is still in elementary school. The startup offered to wait 8 years. Google pays Junior engineers $180,000 a year after 6 months of prep - he's already ready at 10 and still can't accept the offer because he doesn't have 18.
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ShadowNet (@ShadowNetSOL) reportedBuilt a Solana repo scam-detector for ShadowNet's Intelligence Hub. First test, it flagged my own README. It matched seed phrase + private key in the same paragraph and called phishing risk. Turns out that regex hits every legitimate security doc on GitHub. Fix below 👇
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Gregor (@bygregorr) reported@theo The real issue isn't token cost. GitHub priced Copilot assuming models would stay mediocre. Now that they're actually useful, the whole flat-rate model is broken. Did GitHub's pricing accidentally bet against AI progress?
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Ben Badejo (@BenjaminBadejo) reported@MohandesDavid You can submit it as a pull request (“fix(docs) - description) on Github). You can have your agent do it for you.
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Aram Hăvărneanu (@aramh) reported@grhmc Yep, known GitHub footgun. Terrible "feature".
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N!hal (@nihaliscoding) reported@mil000 Is he the one causing GitHub all the issues :(
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Trent Slade (@qsolimc) reported@sama Pro tip. on github you can comment @chatgpt-codex-connector and say Fix these issues and it will :-). @sama Please do more about Code Review with Codex please.
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eileenkdan (@eileenkdan) reported@claudeai anyone having issues installing this plugin? tried as custom personal plugin with the github repo it doesnt show up as the github list of agents
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G (@Geebonics) reported@claudeai Im literally going through this set up for this at my Fintech job and this is already a whole *** can of worms. This is not even enabled by default and you need to download and upload the link to the plugins via their GitHub repository…and even then it’s still not working because it doesn’t recognize my GitHub.
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DissentingSkeptic (@DissentingS) reported@LundukeJournal Im struggling to read ts vibe coded mess for an alpha streaming api. Very hard to read and follow. Took days to fix the mistakes it created with cmake builds. Did not compile out of the box. Which the buggy github bots respond with many errors. TIME WASTER.
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Huzaifa (@huzzymad) reported@github my account was caught in an automated suspension sweep during the April 20th service outage. It has been 14+ days with absolutely no response to Ticket #4305092. This is severely blocking my active client and job workflows. Can a human please review this urgently?
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Huzaifa (@huzzymad) reported@github my account was caught in an automated suspension sweep during the April 20th service outage. It has been 14+ days with absolutely no response to Ticket #4305092. This is severely blocking my active client and agency workflows. Can a human please review this urgently?
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Ariel Lipschutz (@arilishu) reported@ndrewpignanelli Can’t login with GitHub
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BootLoop (@TheBootLoop) reportedMe to GPT5.5 medium: "Using sub-agents, review the GitHub issue, implement the necessary code according to the plan, then create a PR back to main." GPT5.5 medium: "Clean. I've implemented the necessary code according to the plan EXACTLY as you described." Does anyone else experience this literalness sometimes?
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andrew pignanelli (@ndrewpignanelli) reported@arilishu github outage :/
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hatef (@itsmehatef) reported@RhysSullivan x down : annoying github down : end of civilization
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ByteGuard (@byte_guard_blog) reportedGitHub is scaling at a rate that should make any sysadmin nervous. Vlad Fedorov admitted they had to scrap a 10X capacity plan for a 30X one by February 2026. The cause is the AI agent code explosion. We are seeing a huge gap between code volume and actual throughput. Writing code is now the easy part. The bottleneck is validation. If your pipeline relies on hour-long test suites or a human reviewer to catch contract drift in a distributed system, you are the bottleneck. Adding more CI runners is a tactical band-aid for a structural failure. The only way out is pushing validation into the inner loop. Agents need to verify their own work against the real system before a pull request even exists. Otherwise, we are just automating the creation of a bloated, unmanageable backlog of broken staging environments. #DevOps #GitHub
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NiFτy (@niftyinvest) reportedRidges is becoming the coding agent layer for the entire Bittensor ecosystem Their product Ridgeline lets you submit a GitHub issue and the agent solves it end-to-end But you’re letting the echo bubble of CT scare you I’d watch this if you hold or have interest in @ridges_ai 👇
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swarms (@swarms_corp) reported@RiganoESQ @KyeGomezB @pmarca Did you try clicking on a docs link in the github? We have fixed the issue : )