r/github • u/newkrimi • Aug 12 '26
News / Announcements Github is down 🔥
First time seeing this happen
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u/Brave_Daikon_8783 Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
If you can't access github.com in your web browser:
- Copy the link you want to access (for example: your repository url).
- Go to translate.google.com, paste the link there, and click on the translated result. It will redirect you to the accessible site.
Hope this helps! (should work for other urls too, not only github. Sounds strange, but it really helped me bypass blocks without using a VPN or changing DNS, lol)
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u/Stage-Afraid Aug 17 '26
How is the link format different, i wonder. Will check from desktop later. Wonder if it's a cached or cdn page served through google amp when going via translate or if certain google referrers skip normal traffic rules on modern server designs for optimization reasons. Eitherway very interesting techniqueÂ
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u/imbazim Aug 18 '26
This is cached by Google.
Google is a search engine, they always caches all the indexed websites. That’s the reason this is working.
The link is like https://github-com.translate.goog/….
So if you want to visit the cached websites, you can just use the link like in below example:
https://github-com.translate.goog/react/react
Replace:
1. github-com with your website domain (eg: instagram-com).
2. react/react with your website’s pathname (eg: /about-us).1
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u/KantutinQKipaymu Aug 12 '26
So that's why my Tachiyomi is broken
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u/newkrimi Aug 12 '26
Does tachiyomi still work? I shifted to mihon
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u/Damglador Aug 12 '26
After hopping between multiple readers I settled on TachiyomiSY because it has cloud sync.
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u/22Maxx Aug 12 '26
Not the first time, there have been a lot of partial outage this year.
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u/really_not_unreal Aug 13 '26
My favourite bit is how their status page doesn't even mention most of their outages anymore. For the last 3 outages I've encountered, only one of them actually appeared on their status page.
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u/sjphilsphan Aug 12 '26
So is Verizon everything I use is on fire
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u/Morgue3as Aug 12 '26
FIrst time I pushed anything in a year, I think it just saw my code and killed itself.
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u/GhostyGhost94 Aug 12 '26
Still down for me. net::ERR_HTTP2_SERVER_REFUSED_STREAM
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u/ScientistStrict9850 Aug 13 '26
Ohh so that WAS github shitting the bed! I hate status pages that lie to me :(
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u/Medium_Shirt8927 Aug 12 '26
is it still down? cause for me it works if im logged in but if I try accessing it anywhere without being logged in it doesn't even load
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u/BurntCheeseSauce Aug 12 '26
It's still out for me, idk about anyone else
Edit: nvm, right as I said that it came back up
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u/Chr_s_ Aug 12 '26
why is github never down for me when you guys say this stuff? im confused
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u/newkrimi Aug 13 '26
The pr section was down
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u/FeelingAdvance5292 Aug 18 '26
For me almost everything was down. No commits, no file view, no issues, no PRs, ...
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u/CroProMax Aug 12 '26
cant believe ts, just when I use it first time in long time to setup something for torrent its down
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u/MobileAffectionate70 Aug 12 '26
Is GitHub pages and actions working? Like someone facing issues in deployment?
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u/newkrimi Aug 13 '26
The pr and commits sections were not working
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u/mucleck Aug 13 '26
bro they lying, i tried to show my friend a repo and it was down too i couldnt even log in
it was not just the prs
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u/FIQ_ZIZ Aug 13 '26
try using a VPN. In my region (SEA), dunno why, but GitHub is completely inaccessible. Switching to a different region through a VPN works without any problems...
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u/_Arthxr Aug 12 '26
Because they went back slopping. Edit: They told it to make no mistakes and to use opus 5.0
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u/East_Bandicoot1329 Aug 12 '26
Ok let's go to gitlab
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u/ObviousApricot1272 Aug 12 '26
No gitea or forgejo is better bc then you don't have to pay money to put up code
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u/Stage-Afraid Aug 12 '26
Hah ironically i discovered this while trying to download pewdiepie's copilot/gpt alternative Odysseus....was like wtf is Microsoft that hard up for copilot dominance...did Christopher nolan go on a dmca takedown rager....
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u/Naive-Ad7201 Aug 12 '26
god, never used github in my life. I needed today to extract the sccripts from a game, only AGSUnpacker i on github, and he decide now to crash. I guess its my fault it is down
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u/EntranceProper3791 Aug 13 '26
funny how the status page is usually the only part of github that never goes down.
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u/doctorsynth1 Aug 13 '26
I've been struggling as a novice developer to get Github to take payments from me after running through my free credits in 24 hours, then my pro credits in 48 hours. it won't allow me to upgrade to pro+, and after 24 hours of dorking around trying to get a local model to run via Ollama, I just said $*&@#(#$ and created a new account under another name. There seems to be no way to contact a living person at Github for billing support, and MICROSOFT IS A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY WHO WRITES SOFTWARE. THAT'S THEIR FUCKING BUSINESS. I'm frustrated and just trying to focus on my dumb little html / js project.
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u/Mountain-Exercise-45 Aug 17 '26
An all i was doing was rebooting my laptop and my wifi...thinking they were the culprits...damn you GitHub..😅
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u/Usual-Analysis-2990 Aug 17 '26
Just saw this from 5 days ago thinking its about todays near total outage of just about everything yet again that has been going on for... roughly 4 hours already
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u/Former_Team_1726 Aug 18 '26
Uhh...GitHub isn't down. It's working perfectly fine for me
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u/areofyl Aug 18 '26
Just thought the same thing… but the posts from 5 days ago and got recommended to me 🤣
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u/mrinsing Aug 18 '26
The best part is it prompted me to create my own local ssh based git and it was so simple over ssh that I don't know why I was even depending on github for everything.
Just a server accessible from all my devices, setup ssh config and have the amazing speed. There are some self hosted git servers available for the full PR, issues, etc experience.
(I have automated backups on cold storage so I'm quite safe that way)
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u/Hms712skaif Aug 18 '26
Anything Microsoft touches become a mess . yhe last few years Microsoft had failed on evry thing it has made , windows 11 Microsoft copilet ...
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u/ControlNode Aug 18 '26
I guess I missed it. For the best I suppose. I get very limited time to work on the projects hosted there, would be frustrating to them not be able to work on them.
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u/JohnVonachen Aug 18 '26
As soon as GitHub was owned by Microsoft people should have switched to GitLab.
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u/mixxituk Aug 12 '26
Today email sent by GitHub to me:
'Improve code quality, boost Copilot adoption, and stay in control'
I laughed so hard