Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide
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microsoft confirms github is down worldwide
github is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, api, actions, pull requests, and several other services.
Again? Or still?
“9:40 AM EDT on August 17, 2026” so… yesterday. This is old news. Not to defend github, but it’s currently working fine for me and has been all day. Can confirm yesterday was a shitshow.
Yeah. They’re suffering, but Render Unto Caesar.
🤣 my exact thought
It was actually a tactical downtime as to not get hacked by an AI
We should just pin this thread.
Hahahah true
The service with zero 9s. Why does anyone pay for it? I’ve been trying to persuade us to go back to bitbucket at work
We’re moving from bitbucket to github. Yesterday would have been the cutover if it wasn’t down. Happening next week instead.
Ooft, commiserations. Don’t let them steal your Jenkins too! He has served faithfully for 30 years, and will serve for easily 30 more if you give him a chance. And artifact storage!
The move or github being down? Maybe both!
Technically at 1 nine. I heard it dropped below that back in the spring?
See everyone thinks that five nines is what you should be striving for, but Microsoft has realized that nine fives is much more impressive so they’re working towards that now.
For a good stretch they were at three 9s 89.99%
Tbh I’m honestly kind of impressed at this point
CloudFlare having that outage a while back was bigger, I’d say. GitHub is only used by a small percentage of people out there.
If you want to go by “percentage of the Internet taken down”, the biggest outage ever has probably been the Morris Worm, since a lot of major insitutions quarantined themselves by closing down their network links to other sites until they could identify the problem, purge it, and secure their systems against reinfection.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
Just tell your AI to fix it
ohh gipity
Microslop at it again
This is like strait of hormuz now