NPM Is Down

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.

Am I missing something?

Quite a few sites on DownDetector [1] showing reports of outages including NPM [2].

[1] - https://downdetector.com/

[2] - https://downdetector.com/status/npm/

There is something going on for sure, all the servers of the game Final Fantasy XIV went down in NA, EU, and JP too https://is.xivup.com/

Whenever this happens there are a ton of build failures and auto-scaling problems from boxes that talk to npm in their install phases.

The yarn mirror is still up - details on how to use it here: https://benlimmer.com/2021/10/07/how-to-use-yarn-npm-mirror/

at least the status page is up

Here's hoping it stays down.