I flagged this because I don't think that this is actually interesting, will drive discussion, or in general meets the site's guidelines.
I furthermore don't think upvotes/downvotes playout well with this sort of content. It's obviously low-to-zero-value, but it attracts "hey, me too" type upvotes of people saying they observed this super obvious and dumb thing too. I think that factor ends up with a very low-quality post in general.
People who are interested in github will find out by using github and seeing a very clearly identifying unicorn with complete message and status page.
This provides no value or discussion. The likely post-mortem will be interesting, but until then, nothing to see here.
I noticed that for 1-3 minutes after the outage began (I was between pageloads and noticed the outage immediately) the 503 page did not load after waiting >30s. Afterwards the 503 page loads in < 1s. I wonder what failover configuration Github uses, such that this delay would occur.
Chart porn: https://status.github.com/
The title has the wrong date.
34?
git push seems to be working still.
Good thing we like to deploy at 2AM.. oh wait..