Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline

10 points by colinbartlett a day 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.

hulitu - 10 hours ago

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

mlhpdx - a day 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.

TheCleric - a day 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.
- mlhpdx - 6 minutes ago
  
  But download all of them? There is a line here where it becomes absurd to me.
- whatevaa - 17 hours ago
  
  The spirit of open source doesn't account for garbage scrappers using mass botnets.
- bitbasher - 17 hours ago
  
  As if Microsoft/GitHub (closed source platform) care about open source or free software…