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🟠 Codespaces decided performance is optional. Started recovering, then remembered it could just... not. GitHub's still optimistically 'investigating' while your cloud IDE contemplates the void. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Feb 12, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Incident with Codespaces

// Status page says

Feb 12 , 09:42 UTC Update - Codespaces is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. Feb 12 , 09:39 UTC Update - We are seeing widespread recovery across all our regions. We will continue to monitor progress and will resolve the incident when we are confident on durable recovery. Feb 12 , 09:04 UTC</sm

πŸ”— Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/7m8kxmjq0y7m

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