GitHub: Disruption with some GitHub services
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- resolved
Between 15:49 and 16:37 UTC on 20 Aug 2025, creating a new GitHub account via the web signup page consistently returned server errors, and users were unable to complete signup during this 48-minute window. We detected the issue at 16:04 UTC and restored normal signup functionality by 16:37 UTC. A recent change to signup flow logic caused all attempts to error. The change was rolled back to restore service. This exposed a gap in our test coverage that we are fixing.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub, started 2025-08-20 16:14 UTC, resolved after 23 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Disruption with some GitHub services
- Vendor
- GitHub
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/2cl0fjn559ty
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