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Re:GitHub Down Again? by skissane on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:27AM (#50411980)
I think that page only displays outages if some manager at GitHub decides it is "sufficiently major" to display there.

GitHub has outages all the time without that page showing anything.

Another comment pointed to a third party alternative which is more accurate – https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ – but that alternative isn't showing an outage right now either, since I believe it is being fed by GitHub.com's incident data.

Re:GitHub Down Again? by mrshu on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:44AM (#50412082)
> I believe it is being fed by GitHub.com's incident data.

This is indeed correct.

Re:GitHub Down Again? by skissane on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:09AM (#50412240)
Now https://www.githubstatus.com/ is declaring an incident but your page doesn’t have it

Maybe I spoke too soon in labelling your page “more accurate”?

Re:GitHub Down Again? by mrshu on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:00AM (#50413886)
It is only being updated once per day. In an ongoing incident it is indeed not necessarily more accurate.
Re:GitHub Down Again? by skissane on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:20PM (#50415658)
It might be good to put a disclaimer to that effect at the top of the page, to avoid confusion.