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GitHub is down

by tsaprailis on 5/31/17, 12:39 PM with 4 comments

Github is having a "Major service outage." https://status.github.com/

  • by nickcw on 5/31/17, 12:47 PM

    Got the angry unicorn here!

    Interesting that all the images on the angry unicorn page are encoded like this <img width="32" height="32" title="" alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw...">. I guess it means that the page is just a single item to be served.

  • by detaro on 5/31/17, 12:47 PM

  • by HelloNurse on 5/31/17, 12:42 PM

    Looks like a brownout with page requests failing randomly. Not going to try Git access.

  • by ic4l on 5/31/17, 12:55 PM

    Standard push/pull working from south-east asia :)

    edit: seems like they are back