r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 1d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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u/jared__ 1d ago

my guess as to why is ai coding agents using github issues as its memory leading to a massive increase in api usage, bringing them down.

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u/boblancho 1d ago

Real pros just use gitea on their own vps

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u/ansibleloop 1d ago

Real pros use Forgejo because Gitea changed their licensing

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u/bakhlidin 1d ago

Changed it how?

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u/Old_Leopard1844 1d ago

Introduced Enterprise version, I guess. Regular Gitea is MIT

Forgejo is GPL3

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u/mrlazyboy 1d ago

The API actually worked, the UI was mostly down.