Haha typical timing, i've not touched GH in days, and right when i want to...

Ho hum. Some HN distraction time for me then!

EDIT: Youtube too? Checked on http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube.com also

A better link might be https://status.github.com/

I'm learning to love git. How awesome is it to be able to continue committing, branching and all that locally even when the server goes down?

I was in the middle of forking a ruby gem... I really hope it wasn't me that took it down! The second after it finished the site went down...

I'm considering using GitHub as the primary (or only) single sign-on for my new web service. Even with the occasional downtime, I still think it's a great choice for hacker-related web services. I'd rather take my service offline every few months than make people remember yet-another-password.

Apparently it's due to DDOS:

"We are experiencing issues due to a DDOS attack, working hard to restore service"

Taken from https://status.github.com/

YouTube also appears down at the moment. Coincidental?

Always nice to know it's not just you.