Github is Down - Hackdot

Re:Github is Down by WestCoastJustin on Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:51PM (#5794012)

Who cares? By the time this item gets upvotes the sites are almost always fixed. Is this hacker news worthy? I suggest we ban these submissions. This is the second, X is down notice today, Github [1] and Dropbox [2]. Personally, I'd much prefer a submission to https://status.github.com/ with a comment about the Major service outage. Posting the Github.com link is next to useless.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793948

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792510

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Re:Github is Down by bdcravens on Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:57PM (#5794059)

I think it's fine to post about outages - that's relevant news, and even if site is back up, always results in relevant and theoretically good discussion.

I do agree that linking to the URL that's down is a special kind of stupid. At that point, it's a non-link, and there's little value in watching my browser spin.

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Re:Github is Down by jt2190 on Thursday May 30, 2013 @02:05PM (#5794109)

Agree. It turns HN into a defacto Github status monitoring tool. See these many examples: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%2...

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Re:Github is Down by naranja on Thursday May 30, 2013 @05:19PM (#5795314)

100% FullAck : Who cares! Git is a DISTRIBUTED VCS exactly for this reason, so there is absolutely _no point at all_ to bother HN unless its a full outage lasting longer than 1 day.

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Re:Github is Down by cybernoodles on Thursday May 30, 2013 @06:08PM (#5795569)

Exactly. And anyone who needs to know will certainly not have to rely on Hacker News to find out.

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Re:Github is Down by dreen on Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:52PM (#5794022)

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