ChangesGitHubIncrease in timeouts for some unauthenticated users
GitHub: Incident updated: Increase in timeouts for some unauthenticated users
Summary pending. The diff below shows exactly what changed.
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- 115 points · 121 comments · posted · posted 40 min before the vendor’s first update
- 1 points · 1 comments · posted · posted 5 min after the vendor’s first update
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Incident updated: Increase in timeouts for some unauthenticated users on GitHub’s status page, changed 2026-11-08 11:53 UTC (change 2 of 4).
- Title
- Incident updated: Increase in timeouts for some unauthenticated users
- Vendor
- GitHub
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/change/r05b729795a0b17