GitHub Outage Coincides with Origin IDE Launch
SimplyAnnisa · x · 2026-08-18
Approximately 3.5 hours after the release of the Origin editor, GitHub suffered a nearly seven-hour global outage with API error rates near 20%. While Cursor's team called the timing coincidental, developers spent the outage testing Origin as a potential alternative to the struggling platform.
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