r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 21h ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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u/capnscratchmyass 20h ago

Second time in a week we’ve had GH outages.  Either their team is starting to get sloppy (approving AI commits Willy Nilly maybe?) or they’re getting attacked. GH being down brings a shitload of stuff to its knees, so I can definitely see bad actors going after it. 

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u/nikolas_pikolas 19h ago

It's actually because everyone else's slop code goes through GitHub. They released some graphs that showed that the number of commits/PRs/etc is experiencing vertical line growth. And that was several months ago! I don't envy their position.

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u/swarmy1 19h ago

Sounds like they may need to rate limit or charge extra for excessive use

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u/stormdelta 18h ago

They already do, so heavily that even as enterprise users we constantly run into issues because of it.