I've been wondering why we don't all have squid proxies setup for NPM or other centralized dependencies. When I run npm install, I'm hitting the local cache 99% of the time, so I'd imagine that it's a perfect use case and would let us all keep doing our job when this happens.<p>Am I missing something?
Quite a few sites on DownDetector [1] showing reports of outages including NPM [2].<p>[1] - <a href="https://downdetector.com/" rel="nofollow">https://downdetector.com/</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://downdetector.com/status/npm/" rel="nofollow">https://downdetector.com/status/npm/</a>
There is something going on for sure, all the servers of the game Final Fantasy XIV went down in NA, EU, and JP too <a href="https://is.xivup.com/" rel="nofollow">https://is.xivup.com/</a>
The yarn mirror is still up - details on how to use it here: <a href="https://benlimmer.com/2021/10/07/how-to-use-yarn-npm-mirror/" rel="nofollow">https://benlimmer.com/2021/10/07/how-to-use-yarn-npm-mirror/</a>