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GitHub is down: Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues. Immediate workarounds for indie hackers.

BREAKING: GitHub Experiencing Partial Outage — Actions, PRs, Issues Down

Status: Investigating | Severity: Minor | Impact: Partial Disruption

Last Updated: Just now

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What's Down Right Now

GitHub is reporting an incident affecting:

GitHub Actions — CI/CD pipelines may fail or queue indefinitely

Pull Requests — Creation, review, and merge operations experiencing delays

Issues — Display, creation, and commenting may be slow or unavailable

Partial API impact — Some REST API endpoints timing out

Who's affected: Any project relying on automated CI/CD, active PRs, or issue tracking. This hits indie teams hard since GitHub Actions is often your only CI tool.

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Immediate Workarounds (DO THIS NOW)

1. Pause Deployments

Do NOT merge PRs or trigger deployments until Actions recovers. Queue them locally and execute manually if critical.

2. Use Git Directly

You can still push/pull code. The core Git functionality is intact. ```bash git push origin feature-branch git pull origin main ```

3. Check Status Page First

Before investigating further: status.github.com (official status)

This is your single source of truth—bookmark it now.

4. Communicate With Your Team

Use Slack, Discord, or email — NOT GitHub Issues or Discussions

Document what was pending: PRs awaiting merge, failed Actions, blocked issues

Establish manual handoff procedures until Actions is live

5. Bypass Actions Temporarily

If your deploy relies on Actions:

Deploy manually via your hosting provider CLI (Vercel, Railway, Heroku, etc.)

Run tests locally before merging

Document the manual process for your team

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How to Check If Your Project Is Affected

1. Actions Tab → Do you see spinning wheels or red X's? 2. Recent PRs → Are comments/status checks frozen? 3. Issues Page → Can you load, create, or comment? 4. Try the API (if you're technical): ```bash curl -H "Authorization: token YOUR_TOKEN" https://api.github.com/user ``` If timeout or 500 error → you're affected.

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Alternative Tools to Consider (Short-term)

If you need to keep moving:

CI/CD: GitLab CI, Gitea Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI (free tier available)

Issue Tracking: Linear, Plane, Jira, or Notion

Code Review: Gitea, Gitlab (self-hosted options available)

Git Hosting: Gitea (self-hosted), GitLab, Codeberg

Reality check: Most indie hackers won't switch. Workarounds above will carry you through.

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Monitor Recovery Here

1. GitHub Status Page → status.github.com (refresh every 5 min) 2. Twitter/X → Follow @githubstatus for updates 3. This page → We'll update as info comes in 4. Your project's Actions tab → Will show green checkmarks when recovered

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What Happens Next

GitHub's incident response is solid. Expect:

15-30 min: Partial recovery of most services

30-60 min: Full recovery (typical for GitHub incidents)

Post-incident: Incident report published (GitHub does this transparently)

During this time, your code is safe. Your Git history is safe. You're just blocked on CI automation and issue management.

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TL;DR

✅ Your code is fine ✅ Git push/pull works ❌ Actions, PRs, Issues are slow/down 🔧 Deploy manually if urgent 📡 Watch status.github.com ⏱️ Expect recovery in 30-60 min

Stay calm. This happens. You've got this.

—Senior Dev, StillNotAThing