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this PSA is quite unnecessary when a problem is universally known and maximally severe.

• jeppz 9y ago
  Well I didn't know, not everyone uses it on a daily basis.
  • leeoniya 9y ago
    so is it interesting for you to know that a service you don't use daily is down for a couple hours? this random github outage happens basically every other month, and is fixed in like 30 minutes. every time it's on HN frontpage. people who use Github will already know.
    • leeoniya 9y ago
      oh look, it's up again.
    • jeppz 9y ago
      Yea ok I didn't know that either, I thought they were rather rare and worse than that.
• couchand 9y ago
  Maybe it will prevent some folks from refreshing the page and possibly exacerbating the issue?
  • leeoniya 9y ago
    so, front page of HN is a good way of alleviating server load?
• dx034 9y ago
  It helps to spend the time people have now that they can't use GH.
• steve_adams_86 9y ago
  I find it useful because I don't use github directly, but some of my software's dependencies do. It's a nice heads up, because I probably won't be checking otherwise.
• scoot 9y ago
  This wasn't a PSA, it was "first to post grabs the karma".