GitHub Authentication issues related to API requests
114 points by Multicomp 5 hours ago | 23 comments

fishgoesblub 2 hours ago
If I had a nickel for every time GitHub had issues, I'd be able to afford a nice stick of DDR5.
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hgoel 4 hours ago
Ah so that's why the GitHub Pull Requests extension is repeatedly harassing me about needing to log in again...
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verst 3 hours ago
Or the GitHub mobile app where I was using a remote copilot session.
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liberian 3 hours ago
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Croak 2 hours ago
I just set up Forgejo on one of my machines. It works very well, have not had any problems yet.
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ashgfwel 2 hours ago
Surely they just need to consume more tokens to fix this!
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Multicomp 5 hours ago
This is what I get for trying out Fable 5.
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mrmartineau 4 hours ago
These are not working for me right now: Github Pull Requests VS code extension, Refined Github Chrome extension
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romania1 3 hours ago
neither for me
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frankfrank13 4 hours ago
One thing I hate about GH's status page: sure "auth" gets to live under API, so API gets the downtime report today. But all of my remote git ops are failing, because i was dumb enough to use the `gh` cli to auth. Their status pages are not well defined, but they treat them as such, leading to inflated uptime numbers.
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prplfsh 2 hours ago
Nothing but respect for the GitHub team - they're at the center of it all. Can't imagine how their traffic looks these days.

They should raise their prices!

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je42 4 hours ago
Still having issues codeql actions error out with auth issues. :(
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tills13 2 hours ago
cool looks like this nuked all of our authenticated connections in Heroku, too.
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m4rkuskk 3 hours ago
I thought I was hacked this morning... Nope just Github being github...
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y1zhou 4 hours ago
GitHub iOS logged me out. Tried logging in twice before realizing the problem is on their side...
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LostMyLogin 4 hours ago
CodeQL errors with auth issues brought me here.
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Madmallard 2 hours ago
Why are they even changing GitHub?

Like what is the deal here? Why is the company ruining this program? Surely there can't be a financially sensible reason?

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dreday 2 hours ago
Because of vibe coding everyone is a developer now so the number of accounts, PRs, repos, etc just 10x'd.
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Traubenfuchs 2 hours ago
There is ALWAYS a need to scale up, upgrade versions, migrate from one database or scheme to another, cut services into more microservices, melt them back into a monolith, integrate more stuff, deprecate other stuff, fix bugs, increase performance, tune caches…

Some things happen for reasons that make sense, others are done for the sake of it. The PO‘s of front end features need to evolve them. What do you do with a PO who says this is done? They don‘t have visibility, don’t get promoted and they don‘t get a bonus. We have created a dashboard that shows that A/B tested users like the new design more by 7%! The next redesign is already planned!

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lenerdenator 2 hours ago
Line must go up. They're already the default choice for hosting software repos online, so it's time to look at the next thing, whether that be CI/CD or AI or whatever.

If line doesn't go up, some Ivy League business school grad who has holdings in MS might make slightly less money and have to cut back on the nose candy budget while summering in the south of France this year.

And that's just inexcusable.

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nimblist 4 hours ago
Thankyou, was just starting to dig into what was going on with my build
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rvz 3 hours ago
Again? Last time an incident happened was 48 hours ago [0]. Now the API is having issues.

Something every week is falling apart at GitHub and it is slowly self-destructing.

Each time there is an incident at GitHub, it is another advertisement to self-host your own. Otherwise just expect GitHub to break next week or two.

Remember, there is no CEO of GitHub; only their AI agents running it into the ground.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442572

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baq 3 hours ago
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google serve models, but approximately all of their combined output ends up on github.
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Insanity 2 hours ago
To a certain extend I can fully accept that GH has scaling issues because of the insane traffic increase from AI generated code. But they are owned by one of the largest technology companies in the world, who also happens to run a hyperscaler.. so..
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lellow 2 hours ago
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