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Re: NPM website was down

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Post by corvad » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

2ndorderthought wrote: post #8

corvad wrote: post #5

I wonder if this is an underlying infra issue with Azure being that Github was also having issues.

I bet 10 dollars it's DNS.

Just wait and it will be something like "Github's internal DNS was down and caused widespread service communication issues."

Re: NPM website was down

#12

Post by Scipio_Afri » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

2ndorderthought wrote: post #8

corvad wrote: post #5

I wonder if this is an underlying infra issue with Azure being that Github was also having issues.

I bet 10 dollars it's DNS.

Easy there buddy, not everything needs to be a polymarket bet :-)

Re: NPM website was down

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Post by 12345hn6789 » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

cute_boi wrote: post #9

microslop slops are down.

Azure is completely dead across multiple resources. Confirming....

Re: NPM website was down

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Post by TesterVetter » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:04 PM UTC

[dead]

Re: NPM website was down

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Post by simjnd » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

https://npmx.dev is not

Re: NPM website was down

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Post by Imustaskforhelp » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

2ndorderthought wrote: post #8

corvad wrote: post #5

I wonder if this is an underlying infra issue with Azure being that Github was also having issues.

I bet 10 dollars it's DNS.

I am waiting for jeff geerling's "its always dns" t-shirt reference/video about it if that's the case.

Re: NPM website was down

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Post by thanatos_dem » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

2ndorderthought wrote: post #8

corvad wrote: post #5

I wonder if this is an underlying infra issue with Azure being that Github was also having issues.

I bet 10 dollars it's DNS.

Nah, can't be, Azure DNS has a 100% SLA after all: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dns/dns-faq#what-is-...

Re: NPM website was down

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Post by munk-a » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

corvad wrote: post #5

I wonder if this is an underlying infra issue with Azure being that Github was also having issues.

It's likely someone just ran npm ls -all

Re: NPM website was down

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Post by tantalor » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

cozzyd wrote: post #6

That's one way to fix supply chain vulnerabilities.

Can't have any vulnerabilities if you don't have a supply chain

Re: NPM website was down

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Post by rvz » Mon, Apr 27, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

cute_boi wrote: post #10

normie3000 wrote: post #2

Well it is owned by github.

which is owned by microslop

...and proudly maintained by Microsoft's AI agents: Tay.ai, Zo, and Copilot.

They seem to be doing a pretty good job at wrecking both GitHub and npm at the same time.