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I had just posted a link to an issue in github and when I tried to click it to see if it worked, I was wondering if I did anything wrong. Github has so much activity that many people could be thinking the same right now.

I also guess hundreds of persons are wondering if the commit they just pushed killed github's servers.

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I did the same. I spent a solid minute trying different things and googling to figure out what was wrong. Checked the status page and bam!

It's still down. :(

Now there is a human Denial of Service attack because everyone is refreshing their pages like theres no tomorrow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

All DOS are because of humans?

When used as an attack, the efficient method is to buy servers or to have a botnet to do it for you.

But a human sets it in motion.

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