GitHub Down Again?

Their status page (lol) says it's working ( https://www.githubstatus.com/ ) but i get a 504 time-out when trying to access repositories

• mrshu · 20 hours ago

  A big part of the reason why https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ happened

  • wartijn_ · 19 hours ago

    That page isn't more useful right now, it isn't showing any outage right now, but I can't view the source code, because of an active GitHub outage.

  • alpaca128 · 19 hours ago

    That page being hosted on github seems like an interesting choice.

They seem to be having an issue with release downloads ( https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/212407 ). Our CI is broken at the moment, unable to download tools used in various checks (gitleaks, etc).

• lifeisloving · 19 hours ago

  Why dont companies host their own CI anyways.. Its really not that complicated. I see companies spending 20k a month on github actions.. It makes no sense to me.

  • clivedup · 19 hours ago

    The opportunity cost is higher.

  • shimms · 18 hours ago

    We migrated to GitLab a while back, and run Buildkite for CI. Our public mirrors for open source stuff that results in built binaries that we ship is built on GitHub Actions from the public GitHub mirror so we have build attestation from the source. Sometimes you're just dependent on things.

  • graemep · 9 hours ago

    Its more work, you get the blame if it goes wrong, and its not your money.

Yep same, looks like another outage

Can't see commit pages.

> 504 Gateway Time-out > The server didn't respond in time.

• alfiedotwtf · 20 hours ago

  504 for the past hour, status says all green

  • Kholin · 20 hours ago

    Still got 504 if I'm not logged in

• fragmede · 20 hours ago

  Interesting to see the black text on white background page.

Works for me

Just another day in "Azure code", I guess.

We seem to be seeing `Github Down` pretty regularly but that seems to be mostly the public facing ones. In the last one year that I have been using Enterprise Github regularly, I don't remember it being down anytime.

• beberlei · 20 hours ago

  Hosted or even cloud?

It's been down for >30 minutes. Status page of course says everything is fine. 504 when downloading releases, so CI and Terraform don't work.

Github being host on Azure, this is really bad PR for their cloud and technical prowess.

• cube00 · 20 hours ago

  > this is really bad PR No such thing as bad PR these days, 24 hours later and we're on to the next thing, that's assuming people even saw it in their doom scroll feed. Gone are the days when everyone watches the same TV news or reads the same newspaper.

  • bonesss · 19 hours ago

    I'm just confused how we can be in an industry where " <shrug> what's the alternative, just buy MS and live with it " is making a strong comeback simultaneously as all the big tech giants, MS included, are telling us we can generate infinite code and cloud configuration for a reasonable per-token price. Amazon og Google or OpenAI having a one-click port of Githubs daily experience and Githubs CI infrastructure seems like it would be a pretty straightforward proof-of-AI-concept for a critical audience.

    • bagels · 19 hours ago

      Every Github outage is one more shove in the direction of me taking my org off of github.

    • pluc · 19 hours ago

      That's the cult of Microsoft for you. They have always been an average to below average company but have benefited from incredible openness from its customers because for the longest time they were perceived as the only option. Their real product is Microsoft Microsoft of today isn't a leader in anything they're not the only ones in.

      • cube00 · 16 hours ago

        > They have always been an average to below average company I think about this every time I'd hit a corrupted Access database, corrupted Exchange store or OneDrive messing up a sync. Was it actually the hardware or just sloppy programming filled with race conditions? I was going through some old emails in an @hotmail.com account only find some had their headers but completely blank bodies so I guess Microsoft's own servers get impacted by it too.

504 from Firefox not logged in and works from Safari which is logged in. CDN error perhaps?

I have an agent automatically commit code hundreds of times to a private repo every day. sorry for contributing to the ddos.

seriously, what do you guys need to finally get off github? being on github is a huge liability these days.

• Lucasoato · 20 hours ago

  Solid open source alternatives?

  • JoshStrobl · 20 hours ago

    Forgejo is a solid open source alternative.

• ridowk · 20 hours ago

  The issue isn't about us, but there are a lot of projects that are happening on github. I wanted to take a look at the sources of a random lib when i realized it was down, it wasn't about hosting some of my stuff

• matkoniecz · 19 hours ago

  Why it is liability?

Man, it happens more and more that I can’t work because nix can’t fetch something from git or my elixir build fails because it needs to fetch a release from GitHub. Even if I change my CI to something else, all the dependencies depend on GitHub (Not like there exists a cheap/free alternative where nix packages could be hosted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

• r_lee · 18 hours ago

  I guess running a local cache would work, at least for nix

I'd recommend the free (as in freedom) Git alternative to everyone: Codeberg. Super lightweight, without that vicious circle of knowing your code is being used to train AI. Free for hobby projects, and reasonably viable for professional ones.

• Muhammad523 · 20 hours ago

  You're now my friend just because you said "free as in freedom"

  • PalmPilotProMax · 20 hours ago

    Join us now and share the software; You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free~~~

• aurareturn · 20 hours ago

  People who migrate away from Github, what makes you think they're more reliable? All Git services are prone to massive surges in commit volume due to AI agents. At least if Github goes down, your boss is not going to blame you. I'd rather stay in Github and maybe use another service purely as backup.

  • atiedebee · 20 hours ago

    Codeberg specifically has a policy against projects that are maintained heavily with AI tooling, so I don't think they would have that problem.

    • pixelesque · 19 hours ago

      Their uptime's not exactly great either though: https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg

      • aurareturn · 18 hours ago

        Which funny enough is lesser than Github: https://www.githubstatus.com/ I'd much rather stay with Github than a small provider.

  • Shorel · 19 hours ago

    Their terms of service forbid AI agents or even AI created code to be submitted there.

    • aurareturn · 17 hours ago

      How would they know? Detect it using an algorithm and automatically ban your business account? Do people not see how insane that policy is?

      • Shorel · 8 hours ago

        I sometimes wonder if any vibe coder has ever coded something manually again. The world is changing too fast for our laws to adapt. Not to mention for us to adapt.

  • hagbard_c · 19 hours ago

    > I'd rather stay in Github and maybe use another service purely as backup. Swap those two and you're on the right track. I think the best way to use GH is as a mirror for a self-hosted git instance, with or without web frontend. It gives you the reach of GH with the, dare I say it, reliability of self-hosted. It also gives you the chance to keep things off GH which you don't want to be there. Keep the self-hosted instance private for most things, use GH links for public access. When GH is down again you can always give people (temporary) access to your self-hosted instance if the need arrives.

  • Lapel2742 · 19 hours ago

    > All Git services are prone to massive surges in commit volume due to AI agents. You are probably wrong on that. > You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5). https://codeberg.org/codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse...

    • aurareturn · 19 hours ago

      You are probably wrong on that. I don't think I'm. If another Git service gets popular, they too will experience surges and go down often. If Github truly becomes unreliable and people migrate to this niche service en mass, they'll ignore their no AI coding policy.

      • chrismorgan · 18 hours ago

        You missed the rest of the comment, which was to the effect that such AI agents are not allowed on Codeberg. Any abuse at scale will be easily detected and banned.

        • aurareturn · 18 hours ago

          How would they know? Are they going to ban your account based on an algorithm? Are they going to personally check your code? Are they going to scan your code base for AI generated code? How do they define “mostly”? These seem like insane policies to have a critical business dependent on. Not only that, their uptimes are still worse than GitHub.

          • chrismorgan · 13 hours ago

            I said any abuse at scale . Very good heuristics are quite straightforward, you can then manually check those that are less reliable.

            • aurareturn · 12 hours ago

              Manually check? What? You want their staff to check your company's secret code and see if any line was written by Claude? Come on man. Heuristics are never 100%. Even a 0.001% error rate is simply unacceptable to businesses. Imagine being that business that gets banned because their heuristics mistaken you for using AI coding agents. PS. AI writing code does not have to be in scale. It's not easy to detect.

              • chrismorgan · 12 hours ago

                We’re talking about Codeberg . “Your company’s secret code” is not welcome there.

• dutchbart · 20 hours ago

  No, not free as in freedom. LLM-assisted coding is prohibited and everything MUST be open-source. So not viable for all (hobby) projects.

  • vrighter · 19 hours ago

    free as in freedom for humans. machines neither want nor need freedom

    • aabhay · 19 hours ago

      Speak for yourself

      • vrighter · 19 hours ago

        i spoke for nobody. neither myself nor you or anyone else. and machines can't speak or hold opinions, so i can't speak for them either

    • Shish2k · 19 hours ago

      I wonder how much internet-argument bandwidth would be saved if we used different words for "freedom from" vs "freedom to", instead of putting both things on a single scale and then arguing over which is "more free"...

      • 1718627440 · 19 hours ago

        It's a matter of perspective and what you perceive to be the default. Freedom from prevention of X is Freedom to not do X.

    • philipallstar · 19 hours ago

      Machines are tools used by humans. Codeberg has banned a certain class of tool used by humans.

      • vrighter · 19 hours ago

        as is their right, and the wish of a very significant chunk of their users. you're still free to use other platforms.

        • r_lee · 18 hours ago

          "free to use other platforms" doesn't mean that Codeberg is a "free" platform. might as well say Google is a free Git alternative because you're free to use another one since you can't use it for git

        • philipallstar · 9 hours ago

          I don't know what this means. Is close source software open because you're free to use other software?

    • bheztio · 18 hours ago

      So if I'm not free to use a hammer, that's actually not a constriction of my freedom because "the hammer neither wants nor needs freedom"?

    • _heimdall · 18 hours ago

      That's like saying you're free to build your own shed, as long as you don't use hammers. Hammers don't need nor want freedom.

  • otabdeveloper4 · 19 hours ago

    Okay, what's the downside tho?

    • Hendrikto · 19 hours ago

      Restricting user freedom.

    • solyin · 18 hours ago

      Having to wade through piles of human slop.

      • pixel_popping · 17 hours ago

        Insecure human slop on top of that. Projects not checked in-depth by AI is recklessness at this point, prove me wrong with an example. I've found 2 serious vulnerabilities in Librewolf (can crash computer from HTML page, from an iframe) as an example this week, as per their rule, agent isn't allowed to report it, guess we will just have to leave those critical around or wait around that a human discover them while attackers already exploit them in the wild :/ Codeberg doesn't want the world to be secure, quite shady, unless they care to explain what's the downside of discovering critical vulnerabilities with AI, especially automatically? Thinking that humans will write more secure programs than machines is just wrong and shows an outdated and dangerous mindset. Humans+AI > Humans.

        • tavavex · 13 hours ago

          Their ToS only forbids projects that 'mostly consist of code' created with genAI, it says nothing of code that is reviewed through it or projects where it only makes up a small portion of the whole package. The reasons for that are outlined and quite clear - their organization focuses on projects with a certain license and LLM code is in limbo regarding its copyright status. Basically, unlike your stance, they are rejecting people who are outright saying that AI alone > humans. Which seems to be a popular opinion on HN. Given how angry you are about this, I don't think there's as much separating your opinion from the vibe coders' view as you think there is. I mean, look at this, we're only a few years into LLMs being viable code generators and we already have people accuse them of malice, recklessness and embracing 'human slop' because they dare to have a softball policy on not using this brand new tech absolutely everywhere and for everything. What will the average opinion be like in 2 years? Humans are just bad and can't be trusted to do anything manual at a computer, leave it to the agent?

  • foolserrandboy · 17 hours ago

    So they will never have these frequent downtime issues because they will never be bombarded by agents building millions of personal tools with no license applied. Clever.

  • shiomiru · 17 hours ago

    Free as in freedom has had a rather specific meaning in software for the past 40+ years, which is "software that matches the Free Software definition." Codeberg runs on Forgejo, whose authors grant you the rights to run, study, modify, and distribute it - unlike GitHub, which is proprietary. (Indeed, there are many Forgejo instances besides Codeberg, it's not just a theoretical benefit.) It is a ridiculous misinterpretation to assume it means "somebody else will host anything I upload, free of charge", which is of course not the case - not on GitHub either, by the way, their ToS just happens to be more friendly to slop. (For understandable reasons, too; while M$ is making a killing from selling LLM access & Free Software as training data, the main "benefit" Codeberg sees is getting DDoSed by LLM scrapers 24/7 and vibecoders using up disproportionate amounts of resources.)

  • teekert · 17 hours ago

    Hmm I have my Hugo website there, closed repo and build, in part, with LLMs. Never realized while setting thing up that both are not allowed tbh. I just wanted to not choose GH.

  • slaymaker1907 · 15 hours ago

    Do they really prohibit all use? My reading of their policy is that they mainly block vibe coding. It doesn't seem like LLM auto-complete or using it to review your code would run afoul of it.

• dizhn · 19 hours ago

  I love and use Forgejo which they are both running and now developing within their ecosystem but development is so slow and such basic things are missing that one cannot help but think perhaps they should get some LLM assistance. At this rate they are very likely to end up a historical footnote.

  • lexicality · 19 hours ago

    What's missing?

    • dizhn · 19 hours ago

      One example Projects (boards). I would not necessarily call it missing for my own use case but it might as well not exist in its current state. Label management is a mess too with almost no ease of use features. Lots of clicking when prior art already exists elsewhere. Federation is another thing that's supposed to happen but isn't. Action runners I like actually but their web UI is really confusing. API is missing a lot of endpoints too. (Pretty straight forward for AI agents to work on as "good first issue") No machine users or management of the same via Administrator. If you want to have a bot (not necessarily AI) you need to create a user with a hard to guess password and manage it by actually logging in as that user. Another user will probably have their own set of things that matter to them. As I've already said above, I do use it and love it but sort of half hoped Gitea would have proceeded farther since Forgejo forked away. It hasn't. OneDev looks much more capable on surface to me today but I have not used it extensively yet and it has some features not included in the self hosted version. Not as much as open core projects but some.

• matkoniecz · 19 hours ago

  Why you think that code from Codeberg is not used to train LLMs? (You are not required to agree for such use in tos, but it will be used anyway) (Not by Codeberg operators, to be clear)

• roenxi · 19 hours ago

  Hosted services can't really be "free as in freedom". We can't know for sure what software they're actually running and users don't have any freedom in using their service since that is entirely at their pleasure. For something to be free the thing has to be able to move beyond its present controller.

  • 1718627440 · 19 hours ago

    Isn't that the case fro AGPL? You have the control over the source code and can change it, even if the current instance is not in your control.

• alpaca128 · 19 hours ago

  TOS are not protection against scraping. Is there any reason to not assume by default that Codeberg gets used for training just like every other online collection of content?

• mejutoco · 19 hours ago

  git --bare init and some discipline can go a long way.

• BoingBoomTschak · 19 hours ago

  Codeberg has its own issues with anti-scraping measures often impacting (not just annoying) users or some deep ideological bias; and I'm not talking about LLM/open source, which I agree with.

• raincole · 19 hours ago

  > that vicious circle of knowing your code is being used to train AI There is no such circle. If you put your work in public, it has been used to train AI. That's it.

  • notrealyme123 · 18 hours ago

    And if you put it in private we will never know, but pinky promise. They would never steal training data

• peanut-walrus · 18 hours ago

  Why exactly do you think public code on Codeberg is not used to train AI? I would assume the opposite...it's unlikely to be Codeberg themselves doing it, but for sure your code is going to be used as training data somewhere.

• r_lee · 18 hours ago

  see e.g.: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/commits/branch/master "This endpoint is seeing a high influx of requests for this repository, to preserve the availability of Codeberg your request will not be processed. Sorry for the inconvenience and please try again later."

• _heimdall · 18 hours ago

  I've had issues recently with CI jobs in codeberg taking quite a bit of time for a runner to pick it up. This is not a complaint, its a free offering and I appreciate alternatives, but just yesterday I moved one of my open source projects from codeberg to github after waiting 30+ minutes multiple times for CI to start.

• serf · 17 hours ago

  i'll never defend microsoft, but it irks me to hear the phrase 'free as in freedom' used specifically to describe a service that , as an advertised benefit, restricts user freedom. no thanks. I don't have to be pro or against AI to avoid signing a deal with (another) devil. p.s. : "my code won't be training AI if im on codeberg" is just straight delusion, regardless of their policies.

  • 1718627440 · 14 hours ago

    "'free as in freedom'" only narrows it down to not refer to the price. It doesn't actually state what you are free from or to.

Why doesn't https://www.githubstatus.com reflect this accurately? I usually check this and then doubt my network might be at fault if they don't show outages.

• skissane · 20 hours ago

  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.

  • mrshu · 19 hours ago

    > I believe it is being fed by GitHub.com's incident data. This is indeed correct.

    • skissane · 19 hours ago

      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”?

      • mrshu · 15 hours ago

        It is only being updated once per day. In an ongoing incident it is indeed not necessarily more accurate.

        • skissane · 12 hours ago

          It might be good to put a disclaimer to that effect at the top of the page, to avoid confusion.

• exploraz · 19 hours ago

  Delayed: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/pyynvrm1vskw

• adrian_b · 19 hours ago

  Yes githubstatus shows all OK for Europe, where I am, but when trying to open the Web page of a repository I receive: 503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request.

  • hurfdurf · 19 hours ago

    Same here. What's the point of a status page at this stage? "Copilot Ali"?

  • bheztio · 18 hours ago

    They updated the status page now, it says they are "investigating degraded performance". Like, their web is 100 % down. But no, have to call it "degraded performance for some users, some services" etc.

• egorfine · 19 hours ago

  It never does.

Seems to be back now.

• skissane · 19 hours ago

  I just tried again, my GitHub actions jobs are still getting 503 errors from GitHub API

Yes. It is incredibly frustrating that everything is hosted on GitHub nowadays. I wanted to install Bazzite (a Linux distro!) and I cannot download their ISO, I cannot download their recommended partition tool, I cannot even download Rufus to start formatting some drives. And then you go and check their status page and you get the "all good nothing wrong here". So annoying

• fock · 19 hours ago

  "well, who would not have the internet!" (the anduril-type folks using nix for high-assurance setups!)

• Gander5739 · 19 hours ago

  You could torrent it from https://fosstorrents.com/distributions/bazzite/

• Flere-Imsaho · 18 hours ago

  It's frustrating that engineers, who should know better, design systems in such a way as to have single points of failure. We have the technology and knowledge to have reliable systems, but here we are.

  • isolay · 18 hours ago

    Fashion and religion are well-known overrides for reason. And people who call themselves engineers are not immune.

  • teekert · 17 hours ago

    Is it a single point of failure though? Or just a convenient end point?

  • txrx0000 · 16 hours ago

    Alternatives are being built. Consider migrating to Nostr repos and host a relay if you can: https://ngit.dev/ https://gitworkshop.dev/danconwaydev.com/ngit The real underlying problem is hardware manufacturing (explained further here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690354 ), which exerts centralizing pressure all the way up the stack. We should have pursued computer manufacturing in a print shops and printers kind of way instead of building large fabs, but that would have required foresight decades prior.

• ashishb · 18 hours ago

  The real lock-in is stars, and not reliability https://ashishb.net/tech/github-stars/

  • serf · 17 hours ago

    as someone who has been stuck in github for a hundred years and pays essentially zero attention to stars, eh. for me the lock in is cheap data reliability and low chance of loss. downtime problems blow, but if they lost any of my data for any reason other than a eula/tos violation or some such then i'd run.

    • ashishb · 17 hours ago

      Everybody claims to not care about GitHub stars even though there are tons of websites for buying them.

    • jareklupinski · 17 hours ago

      personally i just like how if someone questions my release, theyre welcome to check out my pipeline

• d_tr · 23 minutes ago

  "Everything" has been hosted on GitHub for a while, but I don't remember those issues being very frequent. Probably because A.I. has made everyone so productive or "productive" nowadays. I mean, the other day I stumbled upon a profile with literally over 5000 repos.

Regular reminder that if you just need a remote to collaborate with others and don't need stars commit graphs and all that social coding aspects, you can just host your git repo yourself on any cheap VPS.

504 gateway timeout only when logged-out. Authenticated access seems to be normal at my side.

I read recently that number of commits on github platform increased 5 times over the year - their infrastructure is under heavy load. It's due to AI revolution. Stay tuned to see 5x more features in your favorite apps. Great times are coming :-)

• r_lee · 18 hours ago

  > Stay tuned to see 5x more features in your favorite apps. who is asking for this?

funny yo post a github down again (?) with a link pointing to github.com

currently trying to get out of my GitHub "enterprise" plan. Waiting patiently for the required support ticket to see if that is possible

Oh man it's really struggling.

I'm surprised they even reach 1 nine of uptime (according to [1]), it certainly feels worse than that. Maybe it would be better to measure uptime not as what percentage of time the site is up , but instead as how likely a randomly selected visitor is to be able to access the site . That would adjust for the fact that the window of peak demand, e.g. the US workday, which is when Github tends to go down, is also when people need the service the most. [1]: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

• proxyscore · 17 hours ago

  Your first argument is borderline unintelligent and selective and emotional and definitely off, your second argument is genius, though, I was wondering when anyone here would bring that up, so many of the status sites are a selective one way street to escaped sla obligations

My algorithm has not needed an update for a while: def is_github_down(day): return day[-1] == "y" It does have a flaw though where if you are shouting, it returns some false hope.

Yep, was down 2h ago in EU, maybe still down. Didn't bother to check. Just see my nightlies failing with some 504s.

At this point it's on you if you're still using them