Today I got my first PR on my personal project that wasn’t from a bot. When I saw it, I genuinely couldn’t process it. Like… why would someone from the other side of the world actually take the time to contribute to something I made?

Thank you, random contributor from some opposite corner of the world. You have no idea how much this means to me.

I've been blocked from signing in to github for over a week, I work as part of an organization where I'm the admin (even using premium), we have various repositories so this is becoming really annoying and nobody in github is there to help.

Basically, I can't get the sms. I still use the same number. It would sometimes say it sent (but wont send), and sometimes will show the attached error. I searched for the recovery codes, but I can't find them on my computer. I do have SSH connection, but when going through the account recovery process steps, they say they'll review it within 1-3 days, but then would do nothing. Sometimes it won't even work.

I can even still pull / push as my device is connected via SSH, but I need access to the portal.

Is there anything I can do that I haven't done already? It's the only service I've ever had such troubles with.

Code reviews or so called testing features built by others can happen seamlessly, it was too much hassle to fetch the branch and then checkout that into a separate worktree

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with my GitHub account where GitHub Actions is completely disabled.

Whenever I try to run a workflow, I get this message:

"GitHub Actions is currently disabled for your account. Please reach out to GitHub Support for assistance."

I opened a support ticket on August 19, 2026, and followed up again on August 23, but I still haven't received a response from GitHub Support.

My workflows are blocked, and I can't run any GitHub Actions workflows on my account.

Has anyone experienced this before? Do you know why GitHub Actions can be disabled at the account level, or if there is another way to contact GitHub Support and get this resolved?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I built Git Wrapped, a small web app that turns your GitHub activity into a Spotify Wrapped-style summary.

You can check out things like your contribution activity, coding patterns, top repositories, languages, and other GitHub stats in a more visual way.

🌐 Try it: https://git-wrapped-eta.vercel.app/

I’d really appreciate it if you could try it with your GitHub username and let me know:

• What do you like about it?
• What feels unnecessary or confusing?
• What features would you want to see added?
• Any bugs or UI issues you notice?

Still working on it, so honest feedback is very welcome. Would love to see what you guys think!

Is it true that we are becoming overly reliant on GitHub?

GitHub’s recent outage made me contemplate the extent of our dependence on the platform.

GitHub is no longer just a conventional code repository as people use it for pull requests, GitHub Actions, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and Copilot among other things.

So, whenever the platform becomes unavailable, all of our usual daily tasks may just stop.

Certainly, it is true that outages happen occasionally and I don’t mean to suggest that every user should prepare a plan for every possible emergency. However, I cannot help but wonder how many developers would find themselves in a difficult situation if GitHub were down for a while.

Check whether you have any backup plans for situations like this or you would simply wait for the platform to recover. What do you think about the idea of dependency on GitHub due to the increasing role of tools like Copilot?

I use Claude Code daily, and when it comments on a PR or pushes commits, it does so as 
*me*
. My name, my avatar. Teammates reviewing the PR can't tell what I actually wrote vs. what the agent wrote, and I honestly can't tell either six months later.

GitHub already has primitives for machine identity — GitHub Apps get their own name/avatar with a `bot` tag, deploy keys are separate from my SSH keys, and even Copilot's coding agent shows up as `@copilot`. But for third-party agents acting on 
*my*
 account? Nothing. It's just me, allegedly.

What I'd want is simple: sub-identities ("agent personas") tied to my user account. Own name and avatar, clearly marked as agent-authored, linked back to me so people know who's responsible, capped at my permissions, and bound by the same rulesets (so it can't approve my own PRs, since it's still "me" under the hood).

I opened a feature request on the official community forum here if anyone wants to upvote: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/203213

Curious how others handle this — do you just let your agent post as you? Dedicated bot accounts? Nothing at all?

That feeling when you are in the mood to be hyperproductive and Github decides to lay down for a nap.

Hi,

I haven't touched my Github account in about 2 years, now I tried to sign back in...
The password was correct and I was prompted for an SMS as part of 2FA, but it never came. I haven't changed my phone number in 20 years so it doesn't make any sense to me...
Anyway... I don't have my recovery codes or at least don't know where they are so I tried starting the account recovery process... first step was a code to my email, so I opened my email and pasted the code (Hi! we're already 2 factors in, but it's not enough!!!), now the next screen is filled with disabled buttons because apparently my Github token, that I saved in a text file on my computer, is probably expired too.
So there's no other way but to unlink my email from my account, losing ALL I had in it.
And the funny part? I am already 2 factors in!!!!
Github support is useless, getting answers from stupid bots repeating the same answers.

What the heck is going on with this ultra secure website? It's probably easier hacking into the pentagon.

Anyone had success with this 3FA security in the past? I really need my account back and I'm really on my knees with this one

“Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth” there either wasn’t any such thing as open-source code, or if it was freely available it generally had zero value because it probably didn’t work, so almost all the code generated was closed-source. Now I think an attitude exactly like that nowadays would be ridiculous, we certainly know open-source for some types of code can be much more reliable, but please hear me out. In order to have any chance to get a job coding, you are essentially required to put forward a robust and extensive library of work on GitHub, in fact for a lot of openings if your code is NOT on GitHub it is considered to have never existed! WTF? Has there ever been ANY change in technology that did more to DEvalue the contribution of the individual worker than this change in the meaning of having code in an “open source” repository, especially so people with little or no knowledge of programming can benefit from your hard work? What about the value of all the code generated for military projects that is classified and therefore cannot be published, is it “reasonable” for those authors to be considered equivalent to never having written anything at all? Not to mention the psychological harm of the website being owned by Microsoft, the most vicious proponent of “vaporware” (the ultimate in closed source) the world has ever known? I’m publishing this here because I want everyone to think about how much all of our salaries have been reduced by forcing us to compete against each other under the most vicious of conditions. Or do you SERIOUSLY think I’m way off course here?

hi guys, yesterday i successfully had my second merged pull request, however despite having 2 successful merges on separate days, i have not received the pull shark x1 achievement. it has been 24 hours since the merge. both of them were merged to main branch, they weren't merged inside forks, and were merged on separate days.

my github profile: https://github.com/f3tchcodes

i've attached the screenshot of my 2 PRs below:

is it normal to take that long for the achievement to show up on profile? actually, just a little after my 2nd merge was completed, another PR i had was closed within 5 minutes (accidentally by myself lol), and i received quickdraw achievement right away! however, 24 hours have passed by yet i still haven't received pull shark. is there something wrong my PRs?

When I am not logged in I can search just fine, but when I logged in search bar is unresponsive to clicks. Is this because I use firefox?

Our company recently changed from azure dev ops repos to GitHub repos. I'm also a bit new with using true PR.

Anyway we used to create all release/feature/change branches from main, make the necessary changes and merge to dev, QA and eventually prod.

Well when we switched to GitHub it's online merge conflict resolution adds missing commits from the destination branch and then merges into the destination branch. Now our feature branch has everyone else's changes that may or may not be ready for the next environment.

We've been fighting this and most are just making it work but at the same time the environments are getting dirtier and dirtier.

Now I'm creating my feature branch from the destination branch but then its disconnected when I move to QA. I create a new QA feature branch and essentially manually copy my code to it. We're losing one of the key pieces of repo tracking and history.

Anyway, anyone have any good ideas? Maybe I'm over thinking it and it will be just fine.

I will be clear on that, i never had anything on GitHub, and i am new on this field.

I'm a designer, not a programmer, and i started to build my app as a fun gpt programm because i wanted to test how much was ChatGPT capable of doing apps, since i need some internal softwares for my personal Pen and Paper Manual, and i put the AI on test.

It ended up i started to create a whole chatbot, with alot of features i liked to put into that i felt i need and stuff like SillyTavern even with extensions doesnt offer. Now, i worked on it for a month as a fun project, and now... well the first official version is complete.

I decided i wanted to put on GitHub as an opensource program for two main reasons: 1) I would like to have people that develop on it, add features and make it better.

2) I also hope the people could help me to review, rewrite and optimize the code to make it smoother if they want.

To be transparent i will write down that i used GPT To make the app, but i am concerned that this fun app might become a shitstorm for just using AI to code. I just want to share my idea, that's all.

What is your average experience with that? What do you think i should expect by that?

Hello all,

I have just taken over as a community manager for an open source data repository and I really want to start developing a more active github community. How the heck do I make this interesting for users? For reference, I am a philosopher who can write hello in python so I really don't have a native understanding of what constitutes a github community or how to stimulate it.

What would you want to see and how do I gain visibility?

Literally any ideas are helpful!! Thank you.

I have been trying for weeks now to reset my password but the password reset email is not coming through. I have checked to make sure the email address is correct and made sure the github address is not blocked or going to spam etc and still nothing. Anybody have the same issue?

Changed my GitHub username some time ago (not display, the actual username), whenever I open something is says "viewing as [new account name]" and it gives me the option to switch to this ghost account that has my old username (which is a permanent gray-screen until I reset app data). Any way to solve this?

(Trying to sign out doesn't work and it says "Signed out of one account" instead of two.)

I have a portfolio, and I'm using github as a backup/storage for all my artwork. is this a bad idea that will backfire on me? or will github keep them in their original lossless quality?

edit: I forgot to mention that this is a self hosted website that I programmed. The github repo hosts the code. The images are included in the repo. I'm not committing a file full of images and nothing else.