[StanAngeloff]

Didn't Github comment on their blog recently [1] on how they were improving and reducing failure detection times? Doesn't speak well for them if it's first on Hacker News and not their own Status page.

tl;dr; > One of the biggest customer-facing effects of this delay was that status.github.com wasn't set to status red until 00:32am UTC, eight minutes after the site became inaccessible. We consider this to be an unacceptably long delay, and will ensure faster communication to our users in the future.

EDIT: "We're investigating some issues with our databases".

[1] https://github.com/blog/2106-january-28th-incident-report