I've been wondering why we don't all have squid proxies setup for NPM or other centralized dependencies. When I run npm install, I'm hitting the local cache 99% of the time, so I'd imagine that it's a perfect use case and would let us all keep doing our job when this happens.

Am I missing something?

No, you're not missing anything, besides that most people who do depend on NPM these days, do in fact run their own proxies as the registry does down so often. Verdaccio is the one I see being used in the wild most often. https://verdaccio.org/

Typically big orgs run jfrog artifactory caches (and get to enjoy down time when they break)

Quite a few sites on DownDetector [1] showing reports of outages including NPM [2].

[1] - https://downdetector.com/

[2] - https://downdetector.com/status/npm/

There is something going on for sure, all the servers of the game Final Fantasy XIV went down in NA, EU, and JP too https://is.xivup.com/

Whenever this happens there are a ton of build failures and auto-scaling problems from boxes that talk to npm in their install phases.

You sure about that? https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/qa#queries-to-registryya...

> the Yarn registry is just a CNAME to the npm registry

Huh, it must have been coincidental timing with the NPM outage recovering.

at least the status page is up

Priorities.

Here's hoping it stays down.

Why?

“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

― Michael Caine

Let's celebrate the modern end / Let the world begin again / Celebrate the renaissance man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QmMjvRVHPU

The suffering of web developers amuses me.