[mafro]

When Github appears down, I come to HN to find out if it's affecting everyone :p

[YoukaiCountry]

'Gee, github is down. Is it just me? Better check HN!' Exactly what I just did too.

[pwelch]

This is what I do as we'll. :)

[bdcravens]

I first check their Twitter account, and then when there's nothing there about an outage (currently isn't), I come here.

[eli]

https://status.github.com/ is perhaps more useful?

[bdcravens]

Generally, but I believe it's on the same network, so it may be down as well.