The page you linked to is totally unrelated. You've linked to a blog post about redesigning the jQuery UI API - not the jQuery API.

Oops, you're right - replied too quickly. It's the plugins site that is in flux, not the API. And I linked the wrong post, which is still irrelevant: http://blog.jquery.com/2011/12/08/what-is-happening-to-the-j...

I'm going to delete my original post shortly :)

Its been down almost all afternoon. I first noticed it around 1pm eastern today. Anyone seen anything anywhere? You'd think they would put up a post somewhere about it.

That's why you host jquery on your server

And let this be a lesson to those who do not host it relative to the project they are working on.

how is this relevant to hackernews? sites go down all the time.

Because it's this particular site and because it had been down an extended period of time? It's interesting even if there isn't much to discuss.

a worthy fallback in a pinch: http://jqapi.com/

shouldn't they have a backup site where it will automatically redirect if its down... but I guess a 301 redirect wouldn't work because "if its down its down".