My favourite thing about Hacker News is seeing submissions like these. Partly because whenever a site is down, the submission is a link to the site itself and the traffic from people hitting the submission link might be making things worse. Why not just a title and some text without a link instead? Perhaps the title could say: "Tell HN: Github is down again" instead and perhaps the text could say something like, "I'm in New York and Github is down for me."
Which was hilarious because I put up some old C code of mine [1] and while looking to make sure its all there it hung on me. I immediately wondered if I had been the cause. Fortunately it came back fairly quickly.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/ChuckM/Project3DC" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ChuckM/Project3DC</a>
I get that it's good to know these things, but is putting something at the top of a highly trafficked website, which will inevitably lead to a ton more traffic, gonna make getting it back up any easier?<p>I guess it depends on the problem, maybe the cleaning lady unplugged the servers while she was vacuuming...