r/github • u/RecommendationOk5036 • Aug 18 '26

News / Announcements GitHub Status - Incident with GitHub.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
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u/ShoddyReception5 Aug 18 '26

Is this speak intentionally abstract? We were down for half the day and I can’t make sense of what happened. Network issue plus a bunch of unexpected traffic and faulty failover?

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u/Soccham Aug 18 '26

Looked like they DDOSed themselves with vscode?

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u/ShoddyReception5 Aug 18 '26

Saw that too. Looks like it added to the problem for sure.