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git.sr.ht disrupted by LLM crawler botnets

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-12-24-git.sr.ht-botnet/

Published: December 24, 2025 13:00

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…

Planned maintenance on all services

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-10-22-planned-maintenance/

Published: October 22, 2025 11:00

Planned maintenance on October 22nd will cause intermittent outages: Planned maintenance starting at 11:00 UTC will affect all services, causing intermittent outages that are expected to last between 15 and 30 minutes each. Notably, chat.sr.ht will be…

Planned maintenance on all services

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2026-06-22-planned-maintenance/

Published: July 22, 2025 09:00

Planned maintenance on July 22nd will cause intermittent outages: Planned maintenance starting at 09:00 UTC will affect all services, causing intermittent outages that are expected to last between 15 and 30 minutes each. Notably, chat.sr.ht will be…

Planned bouncer ugrade on Thursday

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-04-03-planned-bouncer-upgrade/

Published: April 3, 2025 12:00

Planned bouncer upgrade is scheduled for Thursday, April 3rd. On Thursday at 12:00 UTC we will be rolling out an upstream update for soju, the software that powers the chat.sr.ht bouncer. The bouncer will be restarted, causing everyone to be disconnected.…

LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/

Published: March 17, 2025 08:30

SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now. However, some of our mitigations may impact…

Planned maintenance on Tuesday

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-02-11-planned-maintenance/

Published: February 11, 2025 10:00

Planned maintenance on February 11th will cause intermittent outages: Planned maintenance starting at 10AM UTC will affect all services, causing intermittent outages that are expected to last between 15 and 30 minutes at most. Notably, chat.sr.ht will be…

LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-01-23-git.sr.ht-ddos/

Published: January 23, 2025 09:30

SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We are continuously working to deploy mitigations, instead of doing any of the other numerous things we have to do, like develop new features, upgrade our infrastructure, or respond to…

Ongoing DDoS of git.sr.ht

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-01-02-git.sr.ht-ddos/

Published: January 2, 2025 19:30

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on git.sr.ht is underway: An attack similar to the one we encountered in December is once again underway, summoning our sysadmins out of their holiday plans to deploy mitigations against more bloody botnets. We…

[Resolved] Ongoing DDoS of git.sr.ht

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2024-12-04-git.sr.ht-ddos/

Published: December 4, 2024 12:30

Mitigations complete. We have finished mitigating the attack and have removed user-impacting mitigations. (17:00 UTC — Dec 4) Attack partially mitigated. We have partially mitigated the attack to restore service to git.sr.ht, but many features of the…

Planned maintenance on Monday

https://status.sr.ht/issues/2024-11-25-planned-maintenance/

Published: November 25, 2024 13:00

Planned maintenance is scheduled for Monday, November 25th. On Monday at 14:00 UTC we will be rolling out some changes which will cause spurious errors and issues across services for the duration of the roll-out. Notably, chat.sr.ht will be rebooted,…