[bleakcabal]

Of all the sites I frequently visit/use, GitHub is by far the one to get DDoS the most often. Anyone has any insights on why?

[lectrick]

I'm not prone to violence but if I met someone who I was certain DDOS'd Github I'd certainly immediately punch them hard in the face.

Github is a noble company with noble end-goals, and collaborative open-source is a revolutionary "work" idea. To see someone smash a bottle on the counter and threaten the nicest guy in the room gives me rage.

[wreegab]

> I'd certainly immediately punch them hard in the face

Looks to me you are prone to violence.

[antonius]

Hard to specifically pinpoint, but clearly someone or a group of individuals that don't want to see GitHub succeed.

[talloaktrees]

(black hat) hackers like to get people's attention, gain notoriety. Especially of their peers.

[trekky1700]

I'm gonna guess people are just assholes. It's quite the target, considering the number of companies that rely on them for their day to day operations. They can do a lot of disruption/damage with it.

[Tobu]

Normally I'd say extorsion, but I don't see why the attackers would keep it up for so long.

[baq]

maybe credibility, of all things. if they can prove they've been able to successfully ddos github, they can be expected to flood pretty much any target.