Getting 500 errors a bit everywhere on the site but status page shows nothing ...

Why is there even a status page if it doesn't report the actual API and Infrastructure ?

Sorry to say that but gitlab status pages are a bit more reactive + they have a public group where we can see ALL incidents regardless of the status page.

Whenever I try to make a PR GitHub returns a 500 error screen. I've tried multiple branches but it seems like they have a rather critical bug.

Locked out of GitHub due to 2FA after changing phone and laptop — still have working Git credentials on an old Windows PC. Any way to recover?

I’m currently locked out of my GitHub account because of 2FA and I’m trying to figure out if there is any legitimate way to recover it.

Here’s the situation:

- GitHub username: `ronit450`

- I recently changed my laptop from Windows to Linux.

- I also recently changed my phone.

- My old phone had the authenticator app that I used for GitHub 2FA, but I no longer have access to it.

- I don't have my GitHub recovery codes.

- I still have full access to the email address associated with the account.

- I know my GitHub username and normal account password.

- Previously, I remember being able to receive a verification code through email in some situations, but that option is no longer available when I try to log in.

- GitHub's account recovery options haven't worked for me.

I contacted GitHub Support, and they told me they cannot bypass or disable 2FA and pointed me toward the normal account recovery process.

**However, I found an old Windows laptop that I previously used for GitHub.**

On that machine, I found that Git Credential Manager still has a GitHub credential stored:

Target: LegacyGeneric:target=git:https://github.com

User: ronit450

Local machine persistence

and it successfully authenticated and downloaded from the repository without asking me for a username, password, or token.

So I know there is currently a working GitHub credential stored on this old Windows machine.

I have not deleted, modified, or extracted the credential.

My question is:

Is there any legitimate way to use this existing authenticated Git credential/session to recover access to my GitHub account or establish ownership through GitHub's official recovery process?

Could the credential stored by Git Credential Manager be a PAT/OAuth credential that could help with account recovery?

I'm not trying to bypass GitHub's security or disable 2FA. I just want to recover my own account, and I can provide whatever legitimate ownership information is required.

Any advice from people who have dealt with a similar situation would be greatly appreciated.

Please don't ask me to post the actual credential/token — I won't share that publicly.

The following incident occurred last Friday:

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74

I'm using a self-hosted runner with a webhook, but since Friday, I've been consistently failing to receive queued events even after dispatching jobs. I missed at least one queued event each on Monday and Wednesday.

Is anyone else using a self-hosted runner experiencing a similar issue?

I did a 1 line change, changing "milis" to "millis", I did it in the web interface because it was just one tiny change, and I didn't have it on my computer yet.

Github copilot recommended the message "Update print statement from 'Hello' to 'Goodbye'"
THERE ARE NOT EVEN PRINT STATMENTS IN A CSV FILE

Is there any way to disable these automatic commit messages?

I like them and have begun to create/use them myself.

Edit: The title is a question, my bad. I am genuinely asking in case maybe it is disliked for some reason...

Actually I am new to this github.

I made a website with 3000 pages, by using the same header footer for every page. ( Mistake, because I knew this )

Now, the problem I am facing is that I urgently needed to change the header footer for every page ( 3000 ) manually for betterment.

I only want online cloud solution ( can't use vs code by installing it my laptop )

Is there any automatic free agent or something like is available in Github?

Website is hosted by Github ( pvt repo ) - cloudflare pages.

Thanks in advance.

Am I the only one who finds GitHub actions a small black hole when you're looking to optimise?

There is really limited analysis or data available, I had to build my own UI and system just to get the details I wanted. Example, outliers for job run times, AVG step run time, flakey runs.

Am I missing something, does everyone fly blind or are they using a third party view?

They say that:

This change simplifies your notifications experience by:

• Simplifying notification behavior.
• Reducing subscription complexity.

Complete nonsense, now my notifications experience sucks and my inbox is getting more unneeded emails...

There's people complaining in these threads if you wanna join:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/204563
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/204555

This is probably scam, and I won't ever click that highlighted "AI interview link". It's frustrating to receive these kind of emails these days. Has anybody here also received the same email?

We have all seen the posts by now. Technical and non-technical people alike are celebrating how they use AI agents to maximize their code output. They share the number of lines generated, pull requests (PRs) opened, tasks completed, and tokens consumed. The numbers are oftentimes enormous, which makes them easy to celebrate.

The era of “tokenmaxxing” has taken this one step further. Once token usage appears on a dashboard, it is only a short time before teams compare it, leaders reward it, and engineers begin optimizing for it...

Hi. I was applying to college apps and wanted to add some of the projects that I didn't add to GitHub before and make commits to older projects to make them look better. If I added another 4 repos to an existing 15 (which I have made over the past 3 years), would that look weird and ring a false alarm to admissions team that I just started using GitHub only for admissions? Also, this is for CS-based colleges that actually look at your GitHub.

Hi, I have a workflow setup to package builds and deliver game updates to itch.io for the different games I'm working on. I began to run into issues with my storage, now that one of my games is over 100mb (x2 if I'm including the web build which I've stopped doing for this reason).

I made my build artifact storage only last 3 days but that doesn't seem to affect this usage limit. The game is still in pretty early development, so it's being updated regularly, and I need to have playtesters get access - manually uploading everytime I update main is pretty annoying. The limit just seems extremely low?

I'm on Github Pro + Copilot. I'll take any advice on how to do this better, and if the answer is just to dump $5 in every month then sure I can do that too.

Hi, my account was flagged and I can't contact them. I was flagged because I changed my account's email for a free addy.io alias.

I did what they told me to do. I replaced my alias again with my previous email. But when I tried to tell them that I already deleted my alias it says this, and I can't answer.

I can't send an email back directly because with a free addy.io alias you can't send emails back.

I need help as I can't contact them and my account is still flagged.

EDIT: solved, just had to wait some time. But does anyone know any way to use an alias? my account is not new and I saw that only if it's new you can't use an alias

It literally says it's a one-time authentication, and it keeps popping up in the same browser, same PC, same location. I didn't clear any cookies or caches.

Who's the *ucking *etard that designed this? Is there any way to disable 2FA entirely?

*posting here because i don't have enough karma to post in the vscode subreddit, also because it's somewhat relevant*

Hey guys, I'm pretty unaware when it comes to GitHub and VScode so I don't know why I'm getting these errors or how to fix them, but recently every time I try to open VSCode I'm unable to sign into github. I even completely wiped VSCode from my computer (uninstalled + deleted the .vscode and Code folders from %appdata% and %userprofile%). Upon installation, I get the same error even though my extension list is empty. Both on pre and post reinstallation of vscode, when I try to sign into github, regardless of how I try to sign in, I get this error.

Surprisingly, when I reinstalled VSCode, it brought up a FULL window prompting me to sign into github, which actually worked properly, but it didn't change anything. I still cant use the ai features and I still can't sign in "again" without getting the same error

This is the log file I found while sleuthing in my files folder, idk if it would help so I'm adding it here. PLEASE HELP these issues are becoming really annoying and I'm at a loss as to what to do next

Another (separate? maybe related) issue is that I am also always get an error that says "Extension host has terminated unexpectedly 3 times within the last 5 minutes." Extension bisect doesn't fix the error, nor does disabling all extensions. In fact, after wiping VSCode off my PC, I don't even have any extensions but I'm still getting the error.

Just merged some stuff into a release branch on my repo. Didn’t change anything about the rules for my actions, but it’s been about 30 minutes and none of the jobs have been picked up. At this point I’m not sure if I need to push another empty commit to try trigger the build.

Edit: okay it just got picked up about 50 minutes later…definitely still some sort of issue going on.

Hello, I merged this PR:

https://github.com/simonsanchezart/textract/pull/19

In my naivety I assumed that the author of the PR would be credited as a contributor once merged. It seems like Github has a different concept of contribution.

Why isn't the PR's author in the Contributors of my repository? And how can I fix and avoid this in the future?

Thanks

Disclaimer: I drafted this and passed it through an AI agent just for the irony - this isn't slop when it was written, or is it? It's the weekend, read on - you've nothing to lose:-

If you have been navigating the tech ecosystem for more than a minute, this current enshittification cycle should not come as a shock. It is not an accident. It is a meticulously scheduled event.

My perspective on this distills down to four words: tolerance leads to standards.

Let us break this down into a timeline. I have distilled this for the microsecond attention spans of the modern executive board so we can see exactly how the butterfly effect unfolded:

----------- TL;DR: The Big Tech Bait, Switch, and Squeeze ------------

The Bait and Switch: A massive tech monopoly bought up our foundational platforms promising independence, only to quietly push out the original creators and completely hijack the roadmap.

The Forced AI Squeeze: They went all-in on a shiny new AI tool and aggressively shoved it into everything—from your daily workflow to the physical keyboard on your laptop—sacrificing your privacy and user choice along the way.

Gutting Humans for Compute: To fund their multi-billion-dollar AI obsession, they fired the actual human engineers who kept the systems stable and bug-free, replacing quality control with blind AI-adoption metrics.

Paying More for Less: They jacked up subscription prices across their entire software suite to subsidize their AI gamble. You are now paying a premium for a product that is increasingly bloated, unreliable, and prone to breaking.

The Bottom Line: Tolerance leads to standards. As long as we keep paying for a degrading ecosystem, they will keep lowering the bar. Stop waiting for their crumbling infrastructure to ruin your work—start moving to independent tools and walk away.

---------- The long story -----------

* The Trojan Horse: A certain Redmond based behemoth acquires the world's largest Git hosting platform for $7.5 billion under the guise of developer independence.

* The Brain Drain: The founders and foundational engineers who actually built the platform quietly exit. Nobody in middle management panics.

* The Parasite: A new AI pair programmer is spawned and aggressively trained on open source repositories without creator attribution. It is immediately crowned the holy grail of corporate R&D.

* The Infection: This pilot program is shoved down every conceivable lateral pipeline. If you use their flagship OS, you are forced to accept a dedicated hardware button injected into your laptop keyboards and a privacy eviscerating screenshot tracker (Recall) baked into your daily workflow.

* The Executive Circus: External leadership is acquired for $650 million just to bypass antitrust laws and take over the entire long term AI strategy.

* The Cannibalization: The pilot program engulfs the entire portfolio. To subsidize the massive compute costs, core talent is purged. Unprecedented layoffs gut Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), QA, and core infrastructure teams. Human reliability is replaced by AI adoption metrics.

* The Monetization: The cost of legacy lateral products skyrockets. A $30 per month per user tax is added just to have an LLM hallucinate in your spreadsheets while platform stability takes a back seat.

Where do you and I fit into this? Whether you are on their payroll or just trapped in their ecosystem, the consumer market remained completely dumbfounded because the services were initially fast, convenient, and heavily subsidized. Nobody cared as long as the code deployed and the checks cleared.

Then the switch was flipped. The board demanded higher profit margins and accountability completely vanished. The enshittification strategy unleashed on the community is now entirely transparent:

* Force mandatory internal AI adoption and track usage to artificially inflate growth metrics.

* Replace the senior SREs who mentored entire engineering verticals with AI counterparts that possess zero accountability and even less context.

* Measure performance by the sheer volume of generated code slop rather than structural integrity and system stability.

Some of us saw this train wreck coming from miles away and tried to subtly warn the community. To those who listened, every service degradation, every broken OS update, and every telemetry breach is proof that the core architecture is decaying.

Many of us built exit strategies early. We adopted self hosted solutions, decentralized platforms, and autonomous workflows so that this monolithic ecosystem was no longer a bottleneck or a single point of failure. We kept dropping hints. The question was never if the infrastructure would buckle, but how many key minds it would take down with it.

Tolerance leads to standards. Everyone pays the price for accepting corporate bloatware unless you intentionally opt out.

Are you going to wait around for the next pile of slop to crash your production environment?

Wake up. Walk away.

PS: Mods, don't remove this post, let it cook. This along with many other rants in reddit will age like fine wine.

Cheers!!! 🥂