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Update : GitHub is currently down for millions of users

Github is currently down
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Github is currently down
GitHub is experiencing a major outage affecting pull requests, Issues, Webhooks, and Actions, with error rates as high as 50% for archive and raw content downloads. The company has not yet identified a root cause.
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Update: GitHub appears to be back up

Service has been restored for us as of now. GitHub's status page shows the company mitigated the issue as of 16:59 UTC on August 17, GitHub says it is continuing to monitor for stability, and has not yet posted a formal resolution. 

GitHub engineers are having a rough day, with the company's status page confirming error rates of approximately 20% across web and API traffic as of 14:04 UTC on Aug 17. Archive downloads and raw repository content have been hit even harder, with error rates of approximately 50%. Pull requests, Issues, Webhooks, and Actions have all been flagged as degraded since around 13:41 UTC. Downdetector also reports that user complaints began spiking around 13:30 UTC

GitHub hasn't identified a root cause yet, and investigations are ongoing.

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We'll update this piece as GitHub posts further status updates.

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