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Comment by Maxion | Hacker News Reader

> We are seeing an approximate 20% error rate across numerous experiences including Pull Requests, Issues, and others. Investigations are currently under way and we will be posting updates as they become available

Well it's 100% down for me, so does this mean 20% of all users are fully down?

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It means it doesn't count towards their uptime at all, I guess, because all their uptime stats are very high for a service that is down more than anything else I use

> Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

> Posted 1 minute ago. Aug 17, 2026 - 13:58 UTC

It also took them 20 minutes to realize that peoples requests to /pull/xx are not working :D

If you load an issue page, you'll see 1 failed request to:

    /project/product/issues/<number>

And sure, that's what you care about, but consider the working requests to:

    /in-product-messaging/copilot-budget-request-banner
    /in-product-messaging/code-scanning-ai-findings-preview-banner
    /github-copilot/chat
    /_private/browser/stats

See, only 20% requests failed!

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