Upvote for both this comment and the parent, because both are true. > We also see the status come up a lot because folks have centralized on a service for a di

Upvote for both this comment and the parent, because both are true. > We also see the status come up a lot because folks have centralized on a service for a distributed version control system and mirrors have become increasingly less common. At least if it actually went down for a long time you could just push your repos from whoever has then checked out to a new mirror and get going again.