A stylized, worried Octocat-like figure is partially buried under a literal mountain of digital clutter. The pile consists of glowing orange warning triangles with exclamation marks, various retro-styled robot heads, and overlapping dark terminal windows filled with chaotic lines of code and 'infinite loop' text. The scene uses a high-contrast dark navy and vibrant orange color palette with a grainy, textured finish, illustrating a platform overwhelmed by automated noise.

What’s gone wrong at GitHub?

For most of its life, GitHub has been remarkably reliable. Then, somewhere in the last year or so, that stopped being the case. What happened?