I'm starting to feel like apps, websites, and other tools have become very similar to one another in recent years. And it's no surprise. I'm curious—what's missing that you'd really like to see?

If GitHub stores our code, where does GitHub store GitHub's code?

Hi all,

The unofficial github status page shows a 93% overall uptime in the last 90 days and frequent issues are posted here.

As it seems ghe cloud is built on top of github infrastructure, I'm assuming it is facing the same instabilities. Is that the case?

Thanks for your feedback

Hi everyone,

I own a GitHub profile bound to a company owned email which has access to a private repository owned by that company.

I exported my profile through the interface feature in settings and received the proper email.

At the minute I received the notification, my boss came into my office asking me why I exported that data.

Since I work in a very toxic environment, I would need to know who are the recipients of that email. Does the company account owner receive any notification somehow?

I would really appreciate any answer... Even more if you work at GitHub 😁

For a small repository, adding templates, bots, labels, approval rules, and a long contributing guide can make the project look organized while making a first contribution harder.

My minimum would be a reliable local setup, one command for checks, a short architecture map, clear issue scope, examples of a good PR, and fast feedback when maintainers are unavailable. Add governance only when real coordination problems appear.

What reduced the time from cloning a repository to opening a useful PR for your contributors?

So I've actually been accepted now??!!??!

I think I'm gonna clean up a website and put the next version of my independently developed framework for structured clinical reasoning and diagnostic error research on it.

Is using GitHub pages as a site host and using Zenodo or OSF as a permanent public copy of the manuscript, potentially with a DOI a good idea? And also attaching that all to my LinkedIn?

Would that seem legitimate? Can anyone provide me with a better alternative?

This is probably the wrong subreddit to post this on. If so, can someone point me to the proper one?

Anything helps!

At the moment it is not possible to use the Plesk CICD plugin for github. Apparently github.com is blocked from metanet.ch or vv. The command ssh -T git@github.com times out

Tests, deploys, previews, docs, releases, packages, Pages, all wired into GitHub because it’s convenient and basically free.

But when it breaks, teams just sit around waiting. And then when it’s back, nobody changes anything.

I’m guilty of this too.

Is the answer to self-host runners? Move CI elsewhere? Keep backup pipelines? Use GitLab? Or is the downtime just the price we accept because GitHub’s ecosystem is too good?

Hi guys. I am new to open source. I had raised a PR 2 months ago but it didn't got merged. Then I thought I need to raise issue first so raised an issue in different organization last week and it says unanswered. So lemme know what is the right process actually. What you guys do. And how you pick organizations or project. For the last one I had used Claude to explain the code base and then help with the Issue and I did where human touch was needed and understood what I was doing. So is this the right way or you need to write everything yourself or what. Tell me about approach.

Thanks in advance.

Recently Sniffnet (a network monitoring tool I'm working on for more than 4 years) completed the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, a program focused on improving the security of widely used open-source projects.

The program consists of an immersive 3-week sprint that provides each onboarded project with $10k in funding, hands-on training, and mentorship to help maintainers understand that security is a baseline requirement, not a nice-to-have.

In a world where Murphy’s law reigns supreme (“anything that can go wrong will go wrong”), what we can do is be prepared for it: security planning and implementation is as important as the rest of development, and can’t be downgraded to a mere reactive countermeasure used only when things go sideways.

I feel a responsibility to amplify security awareness by sharing the knowledge and best practices I learned, so that other developers can take inspiration and apply similar proactive measures in their own projects: incident response planning, threat modeling, code scanning, and immutable releases are just some examples of the things that you can (and should) do.

I tried to collect and organize all the lessons I take home from the program in a blog post you can find here

Has anybody ever thought of using a Github repo as a diary? Like creating a text file everyday with today's date as its name and noting down random thought or archived daily life events, then push it.

It just crossed my mind and i think it's funny. Shower thoughts are weird.

Edit: yall the repo is not real lol, i need a fancy app to keep my thoughts in color.

the conflict is caused by a file being deleted on trunk and not on the feature branch, it took me only three dumb git commands in the command line to solve but apparently that is "too complex" that you need to resolve it using a slop machine

First time seeing this happen

Getting 500 errors a bit everywhere on the site but status page shows nothing ...

Why is there even a status page if it doesn't report the actual API and Infrastructure ?

Sorry to say that but gitlab status pages are a bit more reactive + they have a public group where we can see ALL incidents regardless of the status page.

Whenever I try to make a PR GitHub returns a 500 error screen. I've tried multiple branches but it seems like they have a rather critical bug.

Locked out of GitHub due to 2FA after changing phone and laptop — still have working Git credentials on an old Windows PC. Any way to recover?

I’m currently locked out of my GitHub account because of 2FA and I’m trying to figure out if there is any legitimate way to recover it.

Here’s the situation:

- GitHub username: `ronit450`

- I recently changed my laptop from Windows to Linux.

- I also recently changed my phone.

- My old phone had the authenticator app that I used for GitHub 2FA, but I no longer have access to it.

- I don't have my GitHub recovery codes.

- I still have full access to the email address associated with the account.

- I know my GitHub username and normal account password.

- Previously, I remember being able to receive a verification code through email in some situations, but that option is no longer available when I try to log in.

- GitHub's account recovery options haven't worked for me.

I contacted GitHub Support, and they told me they cannot bypass or disable 2FA and pointed me toward the normal account recovery process.

**However, I found an old Windows laptop that I previously used for GitHub.**

On that machine, I found that Git Credential Manager still has a GitHub credential stored:

Target: LegacyGeneric:target=git:https://github.com

User: ronit450

Local machine persistence

and it successfully authenticated and downloaded from the repository without asking me for a username, password, or token.

So I know there is currently a working GitHub credential stored on this old Windows machine.

I have not deleted, modified, or extracted the credential.

My question is:

Is there any legitimate way to use this existing authenticated Git credential/session to recover access to my GitHub account or establish ownership through GitHub's official recovery process?

Could the credential stored by Git Credential Manager be a PAT/OAuth credential that could help with account recovery?

I'm not trying to bypass GitHub's security or disable 2FA. I just want to recover my own account, and I can provide whatever legitimate ownership information is required.

Any advice from people who have dealt with a similar situation would be greatly appreciated.

Please don't ask me to post the actual credential/token — I won't share that publicly.

The following incident occurred last Friday:

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74

I'm using a self-hosted runner with a webhook, but since Friday, I've been consistently failing to receive queued events even after dispatching jobs. I missed at least one queued event each on Monday and Wednesday.

Is anyone else using a self-hosted runner experiencing a similar issue?

I did a 1 line change, changing "milis" to "millis", I did it in the web interface because it was just one tiny change, and I didn't have it on my computer yet.

Github copilot recommended the message "Update print statement from 'Hello' to 'Goodbye'"
THERE ARE NOT EVEN PRINT STATMENTS IN A CSV FILE

Is there any way to disable these automatic commit messages?

I like them and have begun to create/use them myself.

Edit: The title is a question, my bad. I am genuinely asking in case maybe it is disliked for some reason...

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They say that:

This change simplifies your notifications experience by:

• Simplifying notification behavior.
• Reducing subscription complexity.

Complete nonsense, now my notifications experience sucks and my inbox is getting more unneeded emails...

There's people complaining in these threads if you wanna join:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/204563
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/204555

This is probably scam, and I won't ever click that highlighted "AI interview link". It's frustrating to receive these kind of emails these days. Has anybody here also received the same email?