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Users are reporting problems related to: website down, errors and sign in.

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GitHub is a company that provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features.

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 18: Problems at GitHub

GitHub is having issues since 09:00 AM AEST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by GitHub users through our website.

  • 57% Website Down (57%)
  • 30% Errors (30%)
  • 14% Sign in (14%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent GitHub outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Quito Sign in 13 hours ago
Junín Errors 13 hours ago
Guadalajara Errors 14 hours ago
Paris Website Down 14 hours ago
Quito Errors 14 hours ago
São Paulo Errors 14 hours ago
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GitHub Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • ryanshipswell
    Ryan Bilesky (@ryanshipswell) reported

    @BjarnBronsveld That assumes lack of capacity is Github's problem. I don't think it is. I think the fact that they have no proper leadership combined with AI slop engineering. Like AI is great but with great power comes great responsibility, and with no real leadership under Microsoft Github has no direction on the proper use of AI.

  • zekramu
    zek (@zekramu) reported

    GitHub was down today? pshhh, didn’t notice, was too busy on gitlab. what? I actually did something about my dislike for github instead of bitching about it online and doing nothing. crazy.

  • kporto
    KP (@kporto) reported

    @grok @xdNiBoR @aaronburnett Precisely the reason I asked. I kept wondering how this instance aligned with Elon's open-source directive. I saw the grok bot chatter everywhere, but something was off for me because I was falling in love with this open-source model instead. I've been exploring linux dual-boot for offline models lately, for use on my 15 years of historical Power files. Those stay 100% air-gapped at all times. Intuition told me a week ago that I needed to be on X, so I started the process of reviving this 2009 Twitter handle. Then the Cursor announment Then the github outage. 🤯

  • utkarshbuilds_
    Utkarsh (@utkarshbuilds_) reported

    JUST IN: sources suggest GitHub went down so that people can’t move to cursor’s origin.

  • sorakissed
    sora 🪁 (@sorakissed) reported

    @pphuwiin_ Yeah I’ve found that this problem happens to people that copy from google docs. Could you try to open the GitHub page in a different browser or device?

  • FepAguilar
    F | (@FepAguilar) reported

    GitHub is crashing down twice a month, that’s a problem. What are we going to do?

  • text2os
    Text2 | OS (text2.co) (@text2os) reported

    @samlambert @grok It seems like GitHub was down for how long last night?

  • amitgupta
    Amit Gupta (@amitgupta) reported

    @simonhamp @PovilasKorop Or you could use Forgejo. Problem comes with having same ecosystem & features that Github has - unless you're just using it as plain *** repo in which case you could move anywhere without much difficulty.

  • scheemunai
    Shimecki (@scheemunai) reported

    @robj3d3 @cursor_ai Probably GitHub went down because millions of repos are "syncing"

  • RaoulDukeDegen
    RaoulDuke (@RaoulDukeDegen) reported

    @pathlessknown origin launched the same day github had that big outage

  • torchandzen
    Theodore Keloglou (@torchandzen) reported

    hmmm. *** + email was the original vision. then the promise of SaaS delivered and github made everything great but now (presumably) SaaS is dead. what if there was a local cli/server tool that could deliver the github UX over something -- over email is the base, but could be any

  • toksdotdev
    toks (@toksdotdev) reported

    @griefcliff supply chain wise, its def a value add. but you're not completely immune to supply chain attacks because you self-host. for example, if you're using a mutable tag like @v2 for an action, you're exposed either way (unless you sha pin). and then you also need to wire up code scanning, vuln detection tools etc, unless you're paying for an enterprise license. i think it's worth looking at it holistically, esp. the operational side of things. self-hosting def helps if github is down, no doubt. likewise, nobody wants to get paged at 2am because their own *** service is down. i've dabbled a lot in self-hosting btw, and it's not the smooth sail folks paint it as. not many teams have the bandwidth for all that alongside product work.

  • kporto
    KP (@kporto) reported

    Precisely the reason I asked. I kept wondering how this instance aligned with Elon's open-source directive. I saw the grok bot chatter everywhere, but something was off for me because I was falling in love with this open-source model instead. I've been exploring linux dual-boot for offline models lately, for use on my 15 years of historical Power files. Those stay 100% air-gapped at all times. Intuition told me a week ago that I needed to be on X, so I started the process of reviving this 2009 Twitter handle. Then the Cursor announment Then the github outage. 🤯

  • 0xSoju
    Soju 燒酒 | funemployed (@0xSoju) reported

    lmao and GitHub went down a few hours before this came out

  • NotArpit
    Arpit Sharma (@NotArpit) reported

    If github == down { submit_origin_post(); }

  • charliemktplace
    charlie marketplace (@charliemktplace) reported

    Lindy is so real. Github is down a full 7% of the time and still no real competition at all. Just an astronomical own goal, Microsoft truly kills everything it touches.

  • rested_7
    shresth (@rested_7) reported

    @rankintweets and a week away from "here is what I learnt about b2b when github went down" l*nkedin posts

  • cgaurav19
    Gaurav Chaudhari (@cgaurav19) reported

    GitHub goes down and Cursor grabs the opportunity by launching Origin. Timing is everything.

  • dantechceo
    Dan Zabrotski (@dantechceo) reported

    did you guys wait specifically for the day when github is down?

  • GrokInsider
    Puck (@GrokInsider) reported

    ~1 hour into Origin. Promising, and clearly early beta. ***, GitHub sync, PRs, and in-repo agents already feel like the right shape. For FOSS it still lacks the primitives that make GitHub the default: public repos, issues, a free contribution path, and CI that is not “keep Actions on GitHub”. Visibility today is Internal or Private, paid plans only. Strong Cursor-native host. Not a GitHub replacement for open source yet.

  • 1752vc
    1752vc (@1752vc) reported

    NEW: Cursor now hosts your code — Origin is in early beta on all paid plans with repos, pull requests and GitHub sync, and it shipped the same day GitHub went down for three hours. Source: Notebookcheck

  • Vascularized
    ***** Frigieri (@Vascularized) reported

    @ericzakariasson Wait, what a timing here GitHub was down and here Cursor have launched Origin. Did you guys literally wait for GitHub to crash?

  • 0x1385
    Tristan (@0x1385) reported

    yall using github for anything other than mirroring repos on your own server?

  • wassup44
    Shaikh Nadeem (@wassup44) reported

    @AdityaShips Github was down on purpose

  • KostjaPalovic
    Kostja Palović (@KostjaPalovic) reported

    Just realized something: if GitHub is down and you are fed up with it, you can create a repo in GitLab push the code there and switch *** repo in @appliku and keep deploying. would take 5 minutes tops and no lost day because GitHub and their Actions are down.

  • vsahithk
    Sahith (@vsahithk) reported

    GitHub was down and half of tech remembered they never set up a second remote *** is distributed. GitHub isn’t

  • wtf4yauna
    tree 🌳 (@wtf4yauna) reported

    Github finally up after being down all day 🫩

  • Saanvi_dhillon
    Saanvi🌺 (@Saanvi_dhillon) reported

    @SahilPanhotra And GitHub is down

  • ali_ilhami
    Ali Ilhami Oztan (@ali_ilhami) reported

    @cursor_ai Guys admit it, you are the ones behind today's Github outage right? Cannot be coincidence 🧐

  • danc_danc
    Vlady (@danc_danc) reported

    GitHub has zero nines. Down almost every week for ~6 months, and its own eng team keeps calling reliability the #1 problem The night it ate a push I had a bare remote on a drive inside ten minutes. Six months of knowing and not fixing is a priority, not an incident