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It seems like the problem with it not working very time is Github. I get a 503 on this URL every other time that I load it: http://rawgithub.com/briangonzalez/jquery.adaptive-backgroun...

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Rawgithub.com is not actually affiliated with GitHub. They also specifically say not to direct production traffic to their servers, or you'll run into problems.

The author of this seems not to have paid attention to that, which is particularly silly since the page is hosted on GitHub pages, and the assets can (and should) be hosted there as well.

I was not anticipating on my little 3 hour jQuery plugin hitting the front page of HN, so I didn't take certain precautions. That's a good problem to have.

In any case, I've now moved the library to also be hosted on Github pages.

I didn't mean to be harsh. "Never assume you won't hit the front page of a major traffic driver" is just kind of a lesson that everyone has to learn for themselves.

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