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no incident yet - https://githubstatus.com

down from South Asia as well.

How can they not detect such an incident?

there is one now, Major outage in "Issues, Pull Requests, Projects"

That's just an automated status check, the above comment is referring to an incident which contains prose and updates from the ops team to describe what's actually happening.

FWIW, the API and Git operations are indeed still functioning, so if for example you have the GitHub mobile app you can still read your issues and whatnot.

Time for a decentralised github and yes I know GIT is decentralised. It is about issue management, discovery, pull request etc.

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Thanks, didn't know this existed.

It's by Richard D Hipp of SQLite fame.

you mean something like https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki ?

This is what ForgeFed is building: https://forgefed.peers.community/

For bug tracking, there is https://www.bugseverywhere.org/

Is it just me or is this happening more and more often recently, i.e. since Microsoft acquired GitHub? It's also very shady that they don't even seem to detect these incidents properly.

Yeah, it's very intermittent (from the UK) Sometimes it's 500 and then it works again for a couple of seconds...

Maybe hey just want to show off the new falling OctoCat error page :)

Working now in India

You know you could actually use a self-hosted GitLab for your team's projects. Which is why projects like Xfce [0], GNOME, etc are still up and running and don't suffer from this.

Also if I were a school sys-admin I would self-host and use GitLab.

[0] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2020-April/032436....

GitLab has way too much overhead. I'd use a far lighter alternative like Gitea.

Gitea has worked great for me.

Self-hosting simply means your downtime doesn't happen with everyone else's.

And there are some good reasons for not self-hosting: price/comfort, built-in tools, decent security without having to do your own, etc.

> price/comfort, built-in tools, decent security without having to do your own, etc.

It's more about control and ownership of your own server and data and this same argument can be made for hosting your own website (price, tools, security) which is maintained by you.

You control everything on the server and deal with downtime yourself or as with the context of schools, companies, open-source projects have 'sys-admins' to do this work.

GitHub does not fit with everyone's requirements to do source-code management on a centralized infrastructure, which is why some users have mirrors to Github from their self-hosted solution. (Google, Mozilla, Apple, Linux kernel developers, etc)

If you can self-host your own website, then you should be able to self-host a Gitlab, Gittea, etc solution.

I just got a response from Microsoft: our Windows servers are rebooting to install the latest updates.

So it's down across the whole world? Just to add to the list, it's gone for Ireland too.

Seems to be up again (France)

Working again for me.

edit: spoke too soon.

Same here in US west

India as well.

Down in Vancouver, Canada as well.

Yes, error 500 in Poland as well.

It was back for a moment, now 500 again. Each refresh is a lottery, 200 or 500.

Isn't GitHub decentralised?

The Git part is. The Hub part is not.

In theory. In practice, how many remotes do you fetch-from/push-to? Pushing to one that's not connected to CI/CD may as well be email.

Git the version control system is (well, its "distributed"), but GitHub not so much since the repos themselves are stored central, afaik. I think the most they manage are servers for different countries.

The Netherlands is also down! ;)

But not Down Under scnr

Same 500 here in Southeast Asia

yes, me, too, from Germany

Down in Singapore as well

Here in south africa too

Same in the Netherlands.

Down from kenya as well

Me too, from Hong Kong.

US Central down also.

i'm getting intermittent 200/500s - australia

In my street aswell.

Down in South Korea.

Down for Mumbai too.

no problem in china

500 at South Korea.

Same here in Dubai

Same here (Europe)

Same for Hong Kong

Just as I start contributing to an open source project! Europe.

Working fine now.

Same here US east

can't using kubernetes solve this issue?

they already use k8s IIRC

Same in Estonia

Down from Asia.

Same here China

Same here in EU

500 at India

Down in UK

Again.

seems so, germany

same in the UK

oh well, time for swordfighting on office chairs https://xkcd.com/303/

ok now

The website is down? Apache is running, it doesn't make sense to reboot the server.

Yeah, I'm getting 500 here in the UK

I have a feeling that their infra is a little more complex than that now.

Github Is Down