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In hindsight, GitHub moving away from GitHub Pages from the github.com domain to github.io makes this whole situation less severe. Imagine all the GitHub-Pages-powered sites that would have been down at the moment.

https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-...

Obviously the link above might not work at the moment.

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I think I spoke too soon ... latest update:

"19:23 UTC The on-going DDoS attack now includes GitHub Pages. We are working to mitigate any service disruption."

https://status.github.com/messages

It would be exceptionally epic if you didn't "speak too soon" but instead "gave them the idea" ;P.

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