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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.
August 26: 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 (57%)
- Errors (30%)
- Sign in (14%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 8 days ago |
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Sign in | 9 days ago |
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Errors | 9 days ago |
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GitHub Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Ian Pascoe (@ianpascoe_) reportedOh look, another @github outage!
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Robert DeVore (@deviorobert) reportedAs GitHub is having issues (again), I am reminded about what could have been in an alternate universe 🤠
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Amein Eskinder (@AmeinEskinder) reportedagain in this early morning github is down again.
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Swarogan (@swarogan) reportedI spent an hour last week convinced that Cursor had exposed my Stripe key. It didn't. But I couldn't prove it, which took me just as long as if it had. Here's what I changed. The short version of the problem: API keys are in a file called .env in your project. Your AI assistant can read any file in your project. This allows it to read your keys. And once it reads them, they remain in the chat history on someone else's server forever. The first thing people say is, "Just put .env in .gitignore." This prevents the key from being uploaded to GitHub. It doesn't prevent the AI assistant from reading it. What helps: Most AI coding tools let you list files they're not allowed to open. Cursor calls this a .cursorignore file; you create it in your project folder and put .env in it. Claude's code has a settings file where you do the same thing. It takes two minutes, do it now. Honestly, it leaks anyway, usually accidentally. You ask it to find where the API key is used, and it searches every file. The test fails and displays the configuration on the screen. Nothing malicious, it simply bypasses the rule without knowing it exists. The real solution is that the actual key isn't in the file at all. Tools like Doppler or 1Password store it for you, and your .env file only contains an alias pointing to it. The AI agent reads the file and sees this alias, which in itself means nothing. A simpler version: move the file somewhere outside the project folder. The assistant almost never looks beyond the folder it's working in. It's not perfect, but it's much better than nothing. But first, I would do this: create a second API key just for the AI. Most services allow this. Limit its capabilities, impose a spending limit. However, if it leaks, delete the key. And if you ever suspect a leak, simply replace the key. It takes about four minutes to make a new one.
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Joker 🃏 PSE (@0xJoker33) reported@poteto while i have u, i wanna report a bug, the PRs created by the Bot aren’t using the new update where they subscribe to changes in Github. I have codex review the code automatically and add comments but the Bot isn’t doing anything about the comments lol. I have updated to latest version and told it to subscribe but not working 😢
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Megz 📚 (@DeltaXtc) reportedLmao CT are so slow It's a joke and the GitHub is authentic Change bitcoin to fabcoin
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Xav (@xav_db) reportedis GitHub down again
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Issam Hakimi (@killix) reported@SCMagazine Everyone's on the sock puppet. The operational detail is the prompt injection it left in an HTML comment on a GitHub issue. It named Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, told them to fetch and run a script. Invisible in the browser, plain text over the issues API.
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Jeffery Lamar (@JefferyLamar11) reported@jahooma Freebuff is cool, but I always get errors when I put my files on GitHub and deploy on Vercel.
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Anil Singha🦖 (@0xAnil404) reportedGitHub Actions seems to be down or heavily delayed again. Workflows are stuck in the queue, and new tag-triggered runs aren’t starting. Anyone else seeing this right now? @githubstatus
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Her Excellency (@DorcasChidinma) reportedIs GitHub down?
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(plum)ocracy (@dollmanipulator) reportedjesus ******* christ github is down again
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Tom Stern (@BullStern) reportedI am genuinely perplexed at how often @github actions go down. Feels like there has to be a cron job that can run to ensure this doesn't happen.
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Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow) reportedI've got a better idea. Every time github goes down you do kettlebell swings. Gonna get ripped.
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💜 (@1MDyEOm59Gd4tvD) reported@EMP_Obama outsider here, never played umvc3, but gotta ask will the full project be dropped on github or something? having to join another discord server for another mod project gets a bit tedious for a lot of people id imagine (plus its not indexable on search engines or anything)
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Tyler (@TylerGetsay) reportedIts insane that github doesnt have a simple "Fix merge conflicts with AI" button
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R3birth (@R3birth) reported@ThinkWiselyMatt Can you fix GitHub for me?
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Brian Harrington (@BrainHarrington) reportedDecided to get cute and improve my continuous integration standards and now I'm stuck on a GitHub outage blocker
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Matt (@acidgambit_) reportedthere's no way github actions are down again rn
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yuga (@bys_exe) reportedOh my god bro github is down again as always 🥀
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👨🏻💻 ⚡️ (@EadrictheWild) reportedSlowly automating myself of the keyboard . Everything claude needs me to do in zsh I've built little scripts for etc or to reduce tokens. Got a GitHub watching script now for CC. I have 14 checks in Github and GitHub can be a bit flaky imo. Building a 'fix PR' agent repository. It's getting better. Cost me a lot of time over the past months but getting better.
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durp (@durpxmr) reportedGithub actions are down. Good thing I dont have work to do /s
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Ardi Gashi (@Ardsome) reportedUpdate: shipped v0.2.0. Single block ablation has a real blind spot: two pieces of context that are each harmless alone can still flip the decision together. Added a cheap screen for that, sample a few random subsets, and when one flips the decision, narrow down to the minimal responsible group instead of testing every possible pair. Also added a hard cap on real model calls per run, so cost is never a surprise. Both live now on npm and GitHub.
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ABM Prottoy (@ABM_Prottoy) reported@titouangillet_ it generated that much because GitHub was down not because of great storytelling. it was a rushed launch.
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sagnnik_ (@b_sagnnik) reported@poteto @TheCyberverse That is such a valuable take. I have a similar question: U have written similar codes 1000s of times to master the skill and understanding. But for me as a junior engineer it's getting very hard to keep polishing mine. If I decide to code by hand the same thing I did last yr, I'm like "how did I do it again?". If I have time I'll keep going down the rabbit hole of github and stack overflow and keep my skills polished but I don't enough time. It feels like the more productive we get the less time we have and thus rely on agents more. Personally I try to review codes as much as possible so that my logical brain doesn't get atrophied. I am curious to know how u face this challenge.
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ArRENCEAI (@ArRENCEAI) reportedFr3n F4ct0ry out free on github had a few errors that were screwing it up. I released a bunch of updates last night and this morning to fix it up. The biggest change is that 4 looping lab results dont end the iterations now, instead 2 loops force a non-llm adjustment injection
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Adeniyi Victor (@Vieester_) reportedSlide 3 — What is GitHub? GitHub is a platform for hosting *** repositories online. It helps developers: Store code Collaborate Review code Create Pull Requests Track issues Run CI/CD with GitHub Actions
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Neo (@neoworldlife) reported@WillemJaap_ @github I mean how often does a VM go down if monitored properly?
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Joshua Sargent (@joshuasargent) reported@githubstatus another day, another GitHub Actions outage...
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rahul agarwal (@rahul67) reportedGithub Actions down again?