---
title: "What did you do when GitHub was down last week?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-did-you-do-when-github-was-down-last-week--7jgc7suj2
source_url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-did-you-do-when-github-was-down-last-week--7jgc7suj2
type: freeform
source: "Trunk.io"
author: "Vincent Ge"
published: 2024-07-01T17:23:20.952Z
updated: 2026-03-15T04:53:55.146Z
tags: ["devops", "devtools", "github", "version-control"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 68
comments: 18
language: en
---

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# What did you do when GitHub was down last week?

**[Trunk.io](https://daily.dev/sources/trunkio)** · [@vincentge](https://daily.dev/vincentge) · 1 min read · 68 upvotes · 18 comments

## Summary

GitHub experienced an outage last Thursday affecting Pull Requests and Actions, leading many developers to seek alternative ways to manage their workflows until services were restored.

## Content

[Pull Requests and Actions were down last Thursday.](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/538zgs80s3zg)

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@orcdev** · 5 upvotes

> Overwrote the entire codebase using Filezilla.

**@maxym** · 3 upvotes

> didn't notice it was down as we use Gitlab at my current job

**@nnk** · 1 upvotes

> I guess it was only American servers? I live between Europe and Asia and I didn't notice anything. Website working, GIT working.

**@xavier\_mmw** · 1 upvotes

> We're using GitLab

**@jgzeiss** · 1 upvotes

> You mean a remote system, owned and operated by an "evil empire" third party "went down" and your dev and production work flows were negatively impacted?  Well, well planned system architects!

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