# git.sr.ht disrupted by LLM crawler botnets

- Provider: [SourceHut](https://down.guide/providers/sourcehut)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 0m
- started 2025-12-24 13:00 UTC
- id: DWN-06c5d9ab1e
- Official page: https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-12-24-git.sr.ht-botnet/

## Updates from SourceHut
### 2025-12-24 13:00 UTC: resolved
git.sr.ht is experiencing issues due to a crawler botnet. A crawler botnet
is aggressively scraping git.sr.ht for content to train large language models
and is able to circumvent our usual defenses deployed to prevent them from doing
so, and as a result is causing severe performance degradations for the git.sr.ht
web frontend. Our sysadmins are investigating the issue now.
 (13:00 UTC — Dec 24)

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