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Re:GitHub Outage by rcleveng on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:03PM (#48973918)
So sad that this isn’t newsworthy enough to make the first page anymore.

It’s been a few hours now and things are still woefully broken for me in my org there.

Re:GitHub Outage by vladdoster on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:36PM (#48973483)
Wild I can't even view my repositories now via website or phone app... C'mon $MSFT.
Re:GitHub Outage by nodesocket on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:07PM (#48973649)
I suspect all the good devops engineers left when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft. They got their pay day and living on a beach somewhere.
Re:GitHub Outage by nodesocket on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:55PM (#48973586)
My docker container builds have been queued for nearly an hour.
Re:GitHub Outage by rvz on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:08PM (#48973653)
It's really over for GitHub when it comes to reliability.

Every month [0] something at GitHub (especially Actions) will go down to the point where you might as well have a prediction market over that.

Maybe it is best to just consider self-hosting. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565699

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803