# GitHub: Incident with GitHub Community Discussions

> GitHub status incident “Incident with GitHub Community Discussions” on 2024-10-24: impact minor (vendor’s label), 43 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/xy3hrpmg4r3k
Last updated: 2024-10-24T06:55:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2024-10-24 06:12 UTC · Resolved: 2024-10-24 06:55 UTC · Duration: 43 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy3hrpmg4r3k](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy3hrpmg4r3k)
- [Company: GitHub](https://rewindex.com/company/github.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2024-10-24 06:55 UTC: On Oct 24 2024 at 06:55 UTC, a syntactically correct, but invalid discussion template YAML config file was committed in the community/community repository. This caused all users of that repository who tried to access a discussion template or attempted to create a discussion to receive a 500 error response. We mitigated the incident by manually reverting the invalid template changes. We are adding support to detect and prevent invalid discussion template YAML from causing user-facing errors in the future.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub, started 2024-10-24 06:12 UTC, resolved after 43 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/xy3hrpmg4r3k
- Citation: GitHub, “Incident with GitHub Community Discussions” (2024-10-24 06:12 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/xy3hrpmg4r3k (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub: Incident with GitHub Community Discussions (2024-10-24)](https://rewindex.com/company/github/incidents/xy3hrpmg4r3k)`


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