Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline

Posted by colinbartlett 4 days ago

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Comment by colinbartlett 4 days ago

GitHub published a postmortem for yesterday's outage already, and the cause surprised me: They blame scrapers, or rather ONE specific scraper, for taking down GitHub for 7 hours.

Comment by hulitu 3 days ago

You are not supposed to download anything from Github. /s

Comment by mlhpdx 4 days ago

They may not need to go so far as this to protect their service, but I would accept that any access required occasional authentication. Unfettered, unlimited anonymous access seems dubious in this “I’m taking all your content” AI training world.

Comment by TheCleric 4 days ago

It would also be, in my opinion, very against the spirit of Open Source to require an account to download code for a piece of software.

Comment by whatevaa 3 days ago

The spirit of open source doesn't account for garbage scrappers using mass botnets.

Comment by mlhpdx 3 days ago

But download all of them? There is a line here where it becomes absurd to me.

Comment by bitbasher 3 days ago

As if Microsoft/GitHub (closed source platform) care about open source or free software…