Yet another Hacker News

100 points yodon 1 hour ago 31 comments

Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't

bemcho 1 hour ago | parent

yes in Bulgaria

jjice 1 hour ago | parent

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.

asdfasdfasdf49 59 minutes ago | parent

I'm experiencing as well.

grilledchickenw 58 minutes ago | parent

Yep, started with PR changes not being visible, but now can't load entire repos. I see the pink unicorn.

pedroigor91 54 minutes ago | parent

yes in Brazil

AdyanshG 53 minutes ago | parent

Which AI model is it this time?

spwa4 36 minutes ago | parent

India. (AI = actually, Indians)

qsera 53 minutes ago | parent

Yes, in India.

bhouston 48 minutes ago | parent

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.

hedgehog 32 minutes ago | parent

It's a bit of a different situation though, in many cases the unit of adoption is a team or organization that is free to switch platforms without consideration of what anyone else is doing. At this point I'm going to move my personal projects, it's not bad enough to be a priority at work yet but it's trending that way.

jillesvangurp 4 minutes ago | parent

> Github is hard to displace and it is similar to the era of the Twitter Fail Whales

Hard but not impossible. Being unreliable might nudge a few people. Also, Twitter had their fail whale in their early phase (mostly), not twenty years or so into their existence.

The issue with replacing Github is that it takes more than version control and issue tracking to replace the network that is Github. It's effectively the largest social network for software developers on this planet.

Tangled (tangled.org) is built on the at protocol (bluesky) and seems like an interesting take on this. Most other solutions seem to just move the problem to another much smaller silo (gitlab, codeberg, etc) or throw out the baby with the bathwater by focusing on self hosting without attempt at networking with other instances.

A federated approach seems like it is directionally right. Tangled is far from feature complete but I like the direction and it probably is a bit more resilient against global outages like this. I'm not a user yet but I'm keeping an eye on it.

stetrain 48 minutes ago | parent

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

c-hendricks 17 minutes ago | parent

It sounds like what I was seeing when trying to view PRs last night, so it started almost 12 hours ago.

arccy 14 minutes ago | parent

experiences, as if we're in disneyland

zeroq 40 minutes ago | parent

It's been a downward spiral since covid.

Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since.

esskay 37 minutes ago | parent

Not sure covid was the sole driving force. A combination of MS taking over and deciding to move it to Azure, a massive increase in traffic due to ai usage (not that this should be an excuse for a platform that should be scaleable), and Github going all in on AI usage to write its own code.

They're making it very easy for a viable alternative to pop up and take their lunch - it just wont be Gitlab.

csvance 12 minutes ago | parent

While it annoys me how things have gone downhill, I think you missing one key detail with regards to competition. It's only "very easy" if you feel like throwing enough money at CI compute to power the majority of the open source ecosystems needs. That would be the bare minimum in order to even have a shot of achieving similar levels of network effects as Github.

macNchz 7 minutes ago | parent

I don't have data for it, but I have been a Github user since 2012 and have found it to be down often for pretty much that entire time. I always figured it's cultural to a degree–new features always seem pretty buggy/underbaked, and often continue to long term but remain unloved and incomplete.

ad_fontes 32 minutes ago | parent

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

They're struggling to maintain a single nine these days.

mzajc 29 minutes ago | parent

Certified eleven nines SLA: 9.9999999999%

ChrisArchitect 30 minutes ago | parent

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330684

amrit_mirch 30 minutes ago | parent

why isnt nyone using the alternatives like gitlawb?

lucky-rathore 25 minutes ago | parent

Brian_K_White 18 minutes ago | parent

clown show

thelastgallon 14 minutes ago | parent

Did they switch to Azure?

juntz 10 minutes ago | parent

tenth per day, I almost think my network is noet working.

anticensor 9 minutes ago | parent

Anyone else getting "Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time?"

hariso 6 minutes ago | parent

Yup.

larsonian 9 minutes ago | parent

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.

BIGFOOT_EXISTS 7 minutes ago | parent

Alright! Let's go make some coffee and get fresh air