Just tell your AI to fix it
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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We should just pin this thread.
Tbh I’m honestly kind of impressed at this point
CloudFlare having that outage a while back was bigger, I'd say. GitHub is only used by a small percentage of people out there.
If you want to go by "percentage of the Internet taken down", the biggest outage ever has probably been the Morris Worm, since a lot of major insitutions quarantined themselves by closing down their network links to other sites until they could identify the problem, purge it, and secure their systems against reinfection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, was a malicious self-replicating computer program that affected VAX computers and SUN-3 workstations running the 4.2 and 4.3 Berkeley UNIX code.[1] It is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention.
The Internet was partitioned for several days, as regional networks disconnected from the NSFNet backbone and from each other to prevent recontamination while cleaning their own networks.
The Morris worm has sometimes been referred to as the "Great Worm", named after the devastating "Great Worms" of Tolkien. The Morris worm had a devastating effect on the Internet at that time, both in overall system downtime and in psychological impact on the perception of security and reliability of the Internet.[17]
It was actually a tactical downtime as to not get hacked by an AI
Again? Or still?
"9:40 AM EDT on August 17, 2026" so... yesterday. This is old news. Not to defend github, but it's currently working fine for me and has been all day. Can confirm yesterday was a shitshow.
🤣 my exact thought
Microslop at it again
The service with zero 9s. Why does anyone pay for it? I've been trying to persuade us to go back to bitbucket at work
We're moving from bitbucket to github. Yesterday would have been the cutover if it wasn't down. Happening next week instead.
Ooft, commiserations. Don't let them steal your Jenkins too! He has served faithfully for 30 years, and will serve for easily 30 more if you give him a chance. And artifact storage!
Happening next week instead.
The move or github being down? Maybe both!
Technically at 1 nine. I heard it dropped below that back in the spring?
See everyone thinks that five nines is what you should be striving for, but Microsoft has realized that nine fives is much more impressive so they're working towards that now.