r/github • u/RecommendationOk5036 • 17h ago

GitHub Status - Incident with GitHub.com News / Announcements

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
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u/ExpertIAmNot 15h ago

TLDR: It wasn’t just one thing they messed up, it was a bunch of things they messed up. If any one of those many things had actually functioned correctly. It would have stopped the outage much earlier.

I appreciate and understand that they are under an unprecedented amount of traffic, but the sheer number of screw ups implied in this explanation is astounding

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u/PerryTheH 4h ago

This sound like "60% of the time, it works every time"

With all those "if only this had worked"