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Comment by johnhenry | Hacker News Reader

Aren't npm installs actually hosted on npm? This shouldn't affect npm installs.

That's right. Except I of course got unlucky.

    npm i semantic-ui
    npm ERR! fetch failed https://github.com/derekslife/wrench-js/tarball/156eaceed68ed31ffe2a3ecfbcb2be6ed1417fb2
    npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: fetch failed with status code 503

So, in this case, it looks like github isn't acting as a version control server, but rather a static server... It turns out that github isn't just a single point of failure for some application, but rather multiple points of failure for slightly different reasons...

It is possible to install npm packages that are hosted on GitHub: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17509764/889864

Oh wow, color me surprised. I edited my comment.

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