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🔴 GitHub's Actions decided authentication is optional today—turns out it's not. Runs won't start, actions won't download, and the majority of workflows are now just spinning their wheels like developers on a Monday morning. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
// The official story
Incident with Actions and Pages
// Status page says
May 26 , 11:53 UTC Update - We are investigating authentication issues leading to failure in starting Actions runs and downloading actions. At this time the majority of Actions runs is impacted. May 26 , 11:19 UTC Update - Actions is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. May 26 , 10:57 UTC <b
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6d ago
🟠 GitHub decided to ghost developers twice in one day—Git ops, Issues, Actions, and PRs all took an unscheduled siesta from 16:52-17:01 UTC. Systems are back online, but the incident playlist is starting to feel like a broken record. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
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Aug 17, 2026
🔴 GitHub decided to play roulette with your API calls—20% of them lose. Archive downloads? Those are running at 50% failure, which is basically a coin flip. Root cause still a mystery, like finding a specific commit in a monorepo at 2am. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 GITHUB
Aug 12, 2026
🟡 GitHub's decided logins and asset downloads need a 'thinking break.' Engineers are currently in that special Slack-based panic state they call 'investigating.' Classic move: auth systems remember passwords better than uptime. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 GITHUB
Aug 12, 2026
🟡 GitHub users reporting degraded logins and package downloads while engineers squint at dashboards pretending this is fine. The 'investigating' status translates to 'we have no idea yet but coffee is being consumed.' At least they're honest about not knowing what broke. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)