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GitHub: Incident updated: Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users

Incident updateNormal progress (rule, 100%)Changed www.githubstatus.com (opens in new tab)
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AddedUpdateinvestigating#1
Before: not present
After: Error rates have declined again, and we’re preparing targeted traffic controls while monitoring for a recurrence. Logged-in users and authenticated requests have not been affected.

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Incident updated: Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users on GitHub’s status page, changed 2026-11-09 08:53 UTC (change 6 of 7).

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Incident updated: Increased timeouts due to surge in anonymous users
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