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[Resolved] git.sr.ht disrupted by LLM crawler botnets

Degraded Lasted 0m · started · SourceHut's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Down Index
18of 100

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Updates from SourceHut 1

  1. 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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Questions about DWN-06c5d9ab1e

Is SourceHut still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-12-24 13:00 UTC. For SourceHut's live state, see https://down.guide/sourcehut.

How long did it last?

0m, from 2025-12-24 13:00 UTC to 2025-12-24 13:00 UTC, by the times SourceHut posted.

What caused it?

SourceHut hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

SourceHut's official status page, https://status.sr.ht, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.