GitHub down again? no PR access

GitHub down again? no PR access54 points by yodon 35 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 17 commentsGithubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't help It is not working at all, I can not load any repo pages.Github.com's promise is that it can be the central broker of open source code because it is reliable.That promise hasn't been kept recently.That said, Github is hard to displace and it is similar to the era of the Twitter Fail Whales. It was a sign of growth that couldn't be properly managed but there was not viable alternative. It's a bit of a different situation though, in many cases the unit of adoption is a team or organization that is free to switch platforms without consideration of what anyone else is doing. At this point I'm going to move my personal projects, it's not bad enough to be a priority at work yet but it's trending that way. githubstatus.com has been updated with an incident now:> Update - 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 Aug 17, 2026 - 13:45 UTC It's been a downward spiral since covid.Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since. Not sure covid was the sole driving force. A combination of MS taking over and deciding to move it to Azure, a massive increase in traffic due to ai usage (not that this should be an excuse for a platform that should be scaleable), and Github going all in on AI usage to write its own code.They're making it very easy for a viable alternative to pop up and take their lunch - it just wont be Gitlab. I'm seeing "Merge status cannot be loaded" when attempting to merge a PR.It's a shame I had to go to HN to check if I was the only one instead of relying on their status page that they link.