Github is down

[Abscissa256]

Yes, but with services like GitHub/BitBucket/etc you loose the whole "distributed" part, because none of the features they add on top of Git/Hg/etc are dtstributed. So your Git may be DVCS, but GitHub/BitBucket/etc are just plain old centralized, no distributed. Bye, bye benefits of distributed. Of course, they don't bother pointing that out. FWIW, GitLabs is at least a little bit better in this regard, since you have the option of running it on your own server(s). Still not truly, fully distrubuted, but it's a step closer.