[negrit]

How is this an interesting news ?

Because my comment isn't clear. This is not an interesting news. A link to the twitter status or the github status (https://status.github.com/messages) would be relevant in that case. not just some link to a third party telling us it's down. Yeah thank you. I could have notice it on my own....

[sspiff]

It's the main hosting service for most developers' source code and a large part of how many open source projects organize, communicate and work.

I guess that makes it a tiny bit more relevant than yet another post about how some mediocre entrepreneur thinks we should all live our lives.

[reidrac]

You didn't get his point. The submitted URL doesn't provide useful information, https://status.github.com/messages could have been used instead.

May be when the link was submitted the official information wasn't available. OK, then just wait for something useful because if the site is down and I'm affected I can see that myself, I don't need to read HN.

EDIT: oh, looks like the original comment was edited.

[sspiff]

Well, in that case, sure.

His statement was a little broad (or even ambiguous) and I think my interpretation was the most obvious/straightforward one.

[pjmlp]

> It's the main hosting service for most developers' source code

I seriously doubt that.

[sspiff]

In the hacker/open source community, I'm fairly sure it is.

[pjmlp]

Among HN readers maybe, but the hacker/open source community is much more than that.

[DavidBradbury]

But don't you know that HN is the goto site for anyone who is serious about the technology field?

... /s

[RutZap]

Probably because they said they are under a large ddos attack? :-?

I wonder why would someone do something like this? It's not like github is evil or anything... it's just a really cool and useful tool for coders. It helped a lot of people better their skills and knowledge. Why would someone attack it? (I am genuinely interested in this as I can't think of a reason someone would do something like this)

[negrit]

No they dont. The link just says, github is down, nothing else, an interesting news would be a link to the twitter post.

[barrkel]

https://status.github.com/messages

[AYBABTME]

You're not the first to wonder ^^

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866047

[harrytuttle]

Because tragically, most people have all their eggs in one github shaped basket.

Git on it's own doesn't suffer from the issue of scary downtime (occasionally repo corruption...), but people have bought deeply into the value-added ecosystem that github throws over the top of it.

It's a show-stopper for them.

[sspiff]

I have some of my code on GitHub and some on Bitbucket (for the free private repos), all of my code on my Dropbox and it's synced to 4 different machines.

However, the library I'm working with is hosted on GitHub, their doxygen is on GitHub, their wiki is on GitHub, and I don't have a local version of either of those, which is now pretty annoying.

[harrytuttle]

Very true. This is a major irritation. I rather like Golang because of stuff like this as you can run your own local documentation server and stuff. It's just a neat self-contained package.

[AYBABTME]

Docs, tests, profiler, race detector, linter, build system. Go ships with everything.

I love Go.

[Dirlewanger]

It's not, really. But I assume a good number of us have jobs that depend on it, and out of the big sites out there they are out quite frequent. And then like past threads this one will fill up with people proclaiming they're done with Github and having enough of their shit and looking for alternatives...

[Blahah]

many people on HN will also find it useful to know that github is down for everyone (rather than just them)

[shocks]

It's a nice reminder not to put all your eggs in one basket.

[danabramov]

Well, this brought me here.