[Breaking: GitHub Experiences Widespread Outage, Approx. 20% Error Rate for Web and API Traffic] BlockBeats reports that on August 17, GitHub officially confirmed a widespread outage. Currently, the error rate for web and API traffic is approximately 20%; the error rate for downloading repository Archive and Raw content is close to 50%. Performance has also degraded for several core services, including Actions, API, Pull Requests, Issues, and Webhooks. The official team is investigating.