GitHub is having issues now
SenHeng
310 points
108 comments
April 27, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)
SenHeng
For the past hour, the PR or Issues pages would load with 0 items. Occasionally, there’s an error toast mentioning ‘failure to fetch data’.
m_a_t_t_8_6
Pr's don't load, issues don't load. Pretty much unusable for dev workflows. I felt like a lot of the hand wringing over GH reliability was a bit dramatic but this one seems pretty major (at least for me) and doesn't seem to even be getting that much coverage.
vlugorilla
Codeberg.org is also having issues right now: https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg https://social.anoxinon.de/@codebergstatus/11647770704799298...
ttouch
we'll start posting only when gh is 100% up and it'll make it to the frontpage
rvz
I think we have given GitHub enough time (more than half a decade) after Microsoft acquired it to sort itself out. It is now being run into the ground. At this point their chatbots Tay.ai, Zo, and Copilot are wrecking the platform and there is no CEO of GitHub to complain to about this so it now makes no sense to use GitHub at all. (Especially GitHub Actions) It is now time to self host and not "centralize everything to GitHub". [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
cromka
For the record, it's failing silently, too, showing e.g. "There aren’t any open pull requests." even though there are dozens. That's pretty bad, this will definitely mislead people.
mrshu
Their uptime for just Git operations has been hit pretty hard in the past 90 days: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
agartner
Yeah I think I've finally had enough. I need to start seriously advocating for alternatives since this is starting to impact our business. It's clearly not getting any better.
Lapalux
What a joke
pier25
Github has been having issues since the Microsoft acquisition. https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/
m3nu
Releases aren't being published for me.
cdrnsf
It's a day ending in y so, yes, there's a GitHub outage.
recitedropper
Hate GitHub being down, plus hate AI stealing your code? Join sourcehut--it has worked great for me, and I'd love to see it flourish as a platform.
bakies
I am once again here to say that my gitea has better uptime since I deployed it. It's way snappier too. Long live self-hosting. Diversify from the cloud, build your own!
Gabrielfair
Its sad that we are reaching the point where a large swatch of he planet is affected by the same thing and we don't get much of an investigation
CptKriechstrom
It feels like that every time I need to put in some evening hours to get things done, github knows and turns the chaos monkey up to eleven.
blurbleblurble
Maybe that's why I couldn't filter my stars by language
corvad
At this point it's a weekly occurrence...
collabs
I am on azure US east and I suspect this is an azure service issue. I don't trust Microsoft's status page. It might be "fine" over all but it definitely is not fine for me.
leonardoaraujo
here we go ....