GitHub is down

Some interesting issues happening as a result of it. I pushed a new branch about 10 minutes ago now, and even though I can access it directly using a URL it's not displaying on the website. When I do access it though, it appears that it doesn't realise that the branch exists [1].

1 - https://twitter.com/d0m96/status/717456370719657985

Presumably related to http://githubengineering.com/introducing-dgit/

Between HipChat and Github failing constantly its become extremely disruptive to a lot of organizations. This is getting ridiculous.

$ git push fatal: remote error:   GitHub is offline for maintenance. See http://status.github.com for more info.

What's considered bad uptime for a service like Github? Currently for the past month they're at 98.7137%. My systems engineers says anything below 99% is bad but just curious what you all think.

3 times in one month is quite frequent IMO: https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month

They've been having latency issues throughout the day: https://status.github.com/

I'm curious why this post never got to the front page. Did the admins/mods stop it?

It's been extremely slow for me all of today.