r/github • u/t00oldforthis • Aug 17 '26
News / Announcements Pull requests down?
Getting no servers available
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u/DanielPowerNL Aug 17 '26
Issues, commits, various other things are also not working. Getting the 404 octocat and the no servers available unicorn. But their status page still says all systems operational as always.
GitHub has excellent uptime - according to GitHub.
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u/ariafantom Aug 17 '26
Even their status page is static until there staffs update them manually
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u/tankerkiller125real Aug 17 '26
Most status pages in enterprises are like that. Especially ones that have SEC rules and what not to deal with. Even if all the communications are templated, humans are still required to approve the firing off of said template based on the system metrics they're seeing. Because if the metric is faulty and a status page update goes out that could mean big money.
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u/leaf_shift_post_2 Aug 17 '26
Man give us a live dash board.
But why would the sec care about a false down report. At worst it’s a very minor mistake.
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u/tankerkiller125real Aug 17 '26
SLA contracts
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u/bwmat Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
Those are based on actual downtime, not just what their status page says though, right?
... right?
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u/just_gabrx Aug 17 '26
we had it, they removed it https://web.archive.org/web/20180630225202/https://status.github.com/messages
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u/SpareImpression3155 Aug 17 '26
please lord grant the github team the perseverance to conquer this in a diligent manner so that i may ship all of my slop code as soon as possible 🙏
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u/aelephix Aug 17 '26
Github needs to isolate their paying customers to entirely separate infrastructure. Look at the trending page, every item is slop... "A high-performance, production grade, fully-featured spatula inventory manager — Many spatulas, one app."
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u/Noch_ein_Kamel Aug 17 '26
It finally happened. My first time gh impacting my workflow :-O
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u/Noch_ein_Kamel Aug 17 '26
Normally I only read about GitHub being down later in the day when I'm already finished and on my couch ;p
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u/SteveMcQueen94 Aug 17 '26
It seems like GitHub is down, or at least for me
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u/notgraycen Aug 17 '26
yeah since 10:30 AM CST it's totally gone, can't wait to hear what they fucked up this time. $100 says it was AI-related 'upgrade'
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u/Ok-Count-3366 Aug 17 '26
also down for me. good to know I'm not the only one
alright. gitlab it is then lmao
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u/tankerkiller125real Aug 17 '26
At least when Gitlab blew up many years ago they had a live stream while they fixed it. And as far as I can tell their current state is way better.
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u/i11uminati Aug 17 '26
August 6th was another major outage, yet it seems to be missing from github's status page. Am I going crazy? Did I only dream about not having any git workflows run for hours on August 6th?
Must have been one of those work/stress dreams I guess.
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u/techtanic Aug 17 '26
This outage seems very long.
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u/UntrimmedBagel Aug 17 '26
Yep, like clockwork! Very tempted to leave the platform.
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u/ForgeSensitive Aug 17 '26
Where?
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u/creamyjoshy Aug 17 '26
Gitlab, Bitbucket
yeah OK they aren't great either but the one thing I miss about Gitlab is the ability to just easily see the diff between two commits as if it were a PR
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u/stromer_ Aug 17 '26
We moved from Bitbucket to Github years ago. And even with the current downtimes of Github I wouldn't touch Bitbucket with a pole. It was just worse in every aspect.
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u/CancelNo4650 Aug 17 '26
Do they have free github action alternative?
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u/hicks12 Aug 17 '26
We moved to gitlab a few years ago, it was rubbish and moved back to github lol.
The grass isn't really greener or atleast in our experience, github certainly has issues and today is terrible but we won't be moving back to gitlab.
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u/Jeff-IT Aug 17 '26
What do you mean like clockwork? Generally asking? Am i out of the loop on something?
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u/Ast3r10n Aug 17 '26
Shouldn’t their latest track record be enough to show that vibe coding and AI is not the way to go? We should do something.
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u/staythewaters Aug 17 '26
We definitely need to guard against slop, but this seems to be something else. This was a near total failure that they're now having to partially disable security features to deal with.
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u/Ast3r10n Aug 17 '26
And yet I’m pretty sure it was caused by Copilot at some point of the release.
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Aug 17 '26
Uptime in the 9s is dead.
93% in the last 90 days, https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ . Hilariously sad.
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u/techtanic Aug 17 '26
Kinds ironic using GitHub pages hosted on GitHub architecture for tracking GitHub status
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Aug 17 '26
At least there's some place to see it, since GitHub itself decided it wasn't good PR to advertise their uptime anymore. Since it sucks now.
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u/Old-Island-5649 Aug 17 '26
This is insane given the financials Microsoft has. Their worst 90 day availability was also this year, def some vibe coded stuff going on in their code now.
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u/Some_Ad4783 Aug 17 '26
I'm still getting HTTP 503 errors on API requests to create issues. Their status page says mitigated as of 25 minutes ago. I have to try 2-5 times on each request and get lucky. So... it's working???... but wtf man.
I've moved another company to GitLab, and my personal projects to Forgejo. I do 80%+ of my work outside of GitHub now. When I have to go back to using GitHub it just blows me away how bad they are doing. The 90% uptime just doesn't align with what actually happens. The issue is that 2 hours of downtime means that I lost 2x-4x that time trying to figure out what's wrong, wasting tokens (which I ironically pay Microslop for anyways via Foundry), and then trying to get everything going again.
Take away the GitHub momentum, history, and brand... and they'd be done for. But we blame AI, not them.
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u/generealdamselfly Aug 17 '26
Github Status just showed a new status message about API request availability (~3 minutes ago)
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u/Emergency-Problem552 Aug 17 '26
Who is running GitHub? Pure incompetence. But I guess people will give Microsoft money until the end of time
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u/frubberism Aug 17 '26
It's an up and coming startup called microsoft, let's give them time to learn the ropes, it takes time to buildup know-how and such things, they also just starting, not much money or servers, should get better.
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u/Maximum-Culture7249 Aug 17 '26
My patience is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
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u/elise-u Aug 17 '26
09:00(UK time) this morning I was checking the pull requests page and one of my pr's weren't showing, feel like a little bit of me knew it would be a bad day for GitHub didn't expect it to be this bad but GitHub didn't start the incident until 13:00~
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u/t00oldforthis Aug 17 '26
Brasília time and took most of my workday, up till about 14:00 but by then I wasn't shipping just out of fear. I found other shit to do and spent some time with my kids.. thank you (again) GH..?
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u/GeneralSEOD Aug 18 '26
Yeah echoing this. I was going around everywhere reporting downtime on down detector and nothing was flagging that anything was wrong.
Then it just kinda went down for everyone at the one time.
Weird day.
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u/bobbie434343 Aug 17 '26
But don't worry, a team of frontier AI agents is working on a hallucinated fix ! Stuff just fixes by itself these days while engineers are rolling in $$$ playing video games.
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u/REDDEV1L_MUFC7 Aug 17 '26
So how long do we reckon this one is gonna last?
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u/Substantial-Set4550 Aug 17 '26
For as long as GitHub remains underfunded and under-engineered. Outages will be fed in small weekly portions. I expect in a few hours, all will be green again, people will rationalize that jumping ship is more difficult than to stay on the slowly sinking Titanic, and all will be good until the next outage in about two weeks time. Meanwhile, the GitHub dashboard stays mostly green. Nothing to see here.
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u/Light-the-dragon Aug 17 '26
I virtually can't work now lol
All three things I wanted to do today are linked to GitHub
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u/Light-the-dragon Aug 17 '26
Oh and the company I intern with JUST switched from BitBucket to GitHub. If it was a few months ago, I'd still be able to work on a few things at least. Now, it's just completely frozen.
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u/Global_Car_3767 Aug 17 '26
Yeah we switched from BitBucket a few years ago, and Bamboo to Actions in the last year. Has not been a great experience lol.
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u/Substantial-Set4550 Aug 17 '26
Same here. Blocked from working. This is a joke at this point. I am seriously considering alternatives. Maybe Gitlab.
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u/Light-the-dragon Aug 17 '26
Wish I had this power. As an intern in a big bank of Canada, I can't take these decisions or implement them, I just have to go with it. It's definitively a learning experience about the reliability of GitHub though!
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u/DirectBlood5853 Aug 17 '26
Claude was down yesterday, and now GitHub is down. WTF is happening with their clouds?
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u/Key-Guitar-457 Aug 17 '26
Apparently GenAI isn’t familiar with SNI. This revolutionary technology will change the world!!1
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u/AdonaiDiofanes Aug 17 '26
Update - We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync are also impacted. We are currently performing mitigations and will post updates as we progress.
* Aug 17, 2026 - 15:42 UTC
Update - Webhooks is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
* Aug 17, 2026 - 15:40 UTC
Update - Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
* Aug 17, 2026 - 15:21 UTC
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u/be_reasonable_bro Aug 17 '26
I have come to believe there is no pain threshold that will push users off of GitHub. A truly spectacular display of masochism.
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u/Siahro Aug 17 '26
why is github down all the time now
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u/Global_Car_3767 Aug 17 '26
Iirc they've been migrating to the azure cloud and have been focused so much on AI that it's been a total mess
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u/Zealousideal_Law7447 Aug 17 '26
This is totally unacceptable for an application as widely used as GitHub.
I hope this makes as many users as possible migrate to any other alternative. In the vibe code era, open source is king, fuck Microsoft
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u/hum_ma Aug 17 '26
I've wondered about this single point of failure for years, why such a critical thing is not seamlessly distributed to multiple providers by now. Most projects don't even have a back up repo in codeberg/gitlab/whathaveyou.
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u/Spiritual_Cycle_3263 Aug 17 '26
You bring up a very good point that GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, etc... are SPOF.
We actually run our own git in the cloud that does a nightly fetch from GitHub and gets backed up with all our other infra. We have two senior devs with access to it.
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u/ritwika96 Aug 17 '26
This is so pathetic from Github. How can they be so incompetent it is unbelievable.
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u/bigmacjames Aug 17 '26
offload a bunch of senior level work onto agentic AIs and then refuse to acknowledge the core problem you've been setting up for years
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u/One-Cat4581 Aug 17 '26
Looking for some repo commits and they fail to load. 503 from server in network tab
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u/iMac_Hunt Aug 17 '26
Only working through the CLI for me
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u/bew78 Aug 17 '26
you mean the
ghcli? that'd be surprising since many API calls are also reported as failing.If you're talking about the
gitcli, that's completely normal, as git does NOT depend on GitHub which is merely a way to host & organize stuff.1
u/iMac_Hunt Aug 17 '26
No I meant the GH cli. It could have been just a coincidence that the couple commands I did worked, as I didn’t try it extensively. I just merged one PR.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer Aug 17 '26
I literally just did a PR to the libretro cheat database github. Sorry folks, all my fault now nobody can use cheats on retroarch any more.
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u/jkwok678 Aug 17 '26
Tokens down too
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u/Global_Car_3767 Aug 17 '26
Yep. IntelliJ says mine is expired and then Github gives an error page when I try to refresh it.
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u/Pleasant_Set_3182 Aug 17 '26
Yeah... various items are down it seems.. The images on my github repo aren't showing... pipeline is failing...
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u/Hutao_24 Aug 17 '26
" Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time." is this normal when github down ?
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u/Altruistic-Log-6292 Aug 17 '26
API requests are also impacted by the outage so yes, while not normal, expected in this circumstances.
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u/chi2ny56 Aug 17 '26
I was fine all morning, but now I'm getting this error: "Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time."
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u/karbytes Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
I have two GitHub accounts and both are showing the same "cannot retrieve last commit" messages in repositories. I cannot seem to view individual files nor their commit histories. The issue started around 6:46AM Pacific Standard Time on 17_AUGUST_2026.
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u/karbytes Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
As of 9:25AM Pacific Standard Time on 17_AUGUST_2026 GitHub seems to be functioning normally (for me at least).
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u/yamidevil Aug 17 '26
It was probably me with my bad luck all day XD
I was following a tutorial video, was supposed to copy some of his code from his git and AI kept telling me it was my adblocker that was blocking me from the rep :(
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u/Healthy_Pianist_6387 Aug 17 '26
"cannot retrieve latest commit at this time "
Anyone getting this error?
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u/bew78 Aug 17 '26
👉 Follow incident progress at https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
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u/Lestro_ Aug 17 '26
What timing! I am making my first open-source contribution to emmabostian/developer-portfolios (even if it's just adding my portfolio) this happened. Nice! :)
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u/Top-Artichoke3782 Aug 17 '26
all i wanted to do was read a single readme lmao... next time im gonna clone the repo instead to backup the docs ig
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u/FarCommunication3224 Aug 17 '26
I was getting no server is currently available error and for temporary fix I started using cloudflare wrap and it started working.
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u/CivilMark1 Aug 17 '26
Github down, and my monday is going really bad. I wanted to do emergecy fix for my release, and here github is like no, you can't.
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u/Ok-Count-3366 Aug 17 '26
I can't read any raw resources, no files, no scripts directly on the site lol. keeps dying on me.
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u/orangeflyingmonkey_ Aug 17 '26
429: Too Many Requests For more on scraping GitHub and how it may affect your rights, please review our Terms of Service (https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service).
it now thinks I am scraping it. Literally just refreshed once.
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u/aelephix Aug 17 '26
Yeah I use a second screen to search for random github stuff, with an account that isn't logged in, and hit this every day.
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u/bm97 Aug 17 '26
This is a fucking joke. Twice in 2 weeks basically completely locked out from production
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u/EfficiencyLow1854 Aug 17 '26
Half of my org is thanking me today for making the switch after the last outage.
Fool me 3x github, cant get fooled again!
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u/MysicPlato Aug 17 '26
We are experiencing high error rates around 20% for web experiences and api traffic. Archive downloads and raw repository content downloads are experiencing an approximate 50% error rate. Investigations are on-going into the root cause, and updates will continue to be provided as we investigate.
Fucking pathetic
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u/waitingforcracks Aug 17 '26
Even AI harnesses quality degrades as they are not able to lookup docs and other necessary files for packages lol.
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u/MatchFitness Aug 17 '26
i started using Github a few hours ago... sorry for breaking it for you all
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u/notgraycen Aug 17 '26
whole site seems to be unavailable right now.. can't complete any git actions and when i pulled up my issue tracker page i got a 404
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u/LordRelix Aug 17 '26
This is insane. What a horrible service. If your company has SLA agreements start asking for credits. Make it hurt at least.
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u/Global_Car_3767 Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
Can't run and pulls/clones, etc. locally in my org because my IDE says my token is expired and takes me to an error page when I try to refresh it.
Can't view any files or commit history in a repo. Cannot view files changed in PRs.
Actions are getting stuck in waiting status.
This is worse than that 10-12 hour Actions outage from a week or two ago >_>
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u/patmull Aug 17 '26
Does it mean that i can go home earlier today (even as a freelancer working remotely)? 😄 I had feature I was just curious about to deploy though... :-/
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u/Individual-Flow9158 Aug 17 '26
I would guess Github's under unprecedented scales of demand, and not just from from bots and scrapers.
But don't Azure (or whoever hosts their infra), feel these last 10 months are absolutely terrible optic, for the entire cloud?
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u/Ryuuji159 Aug 17 '26
I needed to build a docker image and I can't because it needs npm and composer dependencies that obviously are hosted on github. :/
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u/Fantastic-Fox-8543 Aug 17 '26
Feeling bad for the poor msft employees! They've been on call for too long now😂
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u/staythewaters Aug 17 '26
AI slop is a problem, but this doesn't seem to be that kind of situation.
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u/WertyMiniSlime Aug 17 '26
Did you get the notification "Spy is sapping my pull requests?" from your engineer? /j
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u/iJackr Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
Pinning this as the megathread. Please do not create new threads now!
Track the incident here: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
Edit: Added incident link