Authentication issues related to API requests

Multicomp 158 points 32 comments June 10, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (19 comments)

Multicomp

This is what I get for trying out Fable 5.

nimblist

Thankyou, was just starting to dig into what was going on with my build

y1zhou

GitHub iOS logged me out. Tried logging in twice before realizing the problem is on their side...

mrmartineau

These are not working for me right now: Github Pull Requests VS code extension, Refined Github Chrome extension

je42

Still having issues codeql actions error out with auth issues. :(

hgoel

Ah so that's why the GitHub Pull Requests extension is repeatedly harassing me about needing to log in again...

LostMyLogin

CodeQL errors with auth issues brought me here.

frankfrank13

One thing I hate about GH's status page: sure "auth" gets to live under API, so API gets the downtime report today. But all of my remote git ops are failing, because i was dumb enough to use the `gh` cli to auth. Their status pages are not well defined, but they treat them as such, leading to inflated uptime numbers.

rvz

Again? Last time an incident happened was 48 hours ago [0]. Now the API is having issues. Something every week is falling apart at GitHub and it is slowly self-destructing. Each time there is an incident at GitHub, it is another advertisement to self-host your own. Otherwise just expect GitHub to break next week or two. Remember, there is no CEO of GitHub; only their AI agents running it into the ground. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442572

m4rkuskk

I thought I was hacked this morning... Nope just Github being github...

ashgfwel

Surely they just need to consume more tokens to fix this!

tills13

cool looks like this nuked all of our authenticated connections in Heroku, too.

Croak

I just set up Forgejo on one of my machines. It works very well, have not had any problems yet.

Madmallard

Why are they even changing GitHub? Like what is the deal here? Why is the company ruining this program? Surely there can't be a financially sensible reason?

fishgoesblub

If I had a nickel for every time GitHub had issues, I'd be able to afford a nice stick of DDR5.

prplfsh

Nothing but respect for the GitHub team - they're at the center of it all. Can't imagine how their traffic looks these days. They should raise their prices!

bob1029

I'd much prefer to get a 500 than a 401 if there is something broken in the server. This wasted a solid hour of my day.

PufPufPuf

Race for the mythical eight eights of uptime continues!

noobnooc

For critical GitHub/CI failures, you might want to try Echobell ( https://echobell.one ) — it turns webhooks into iOS push or even phone call alerts.

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