Git.sr.ht is being disrupted by aggressive LLM crawlers

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git.sr.ht is being disrupted by aggressive LLM crawlers .

An aggressive botnet is scraping git.sr.ht to obtain data to train large<br>language models. It has been able to circumvent the defenses we ordinarily<br>deploy to mitigate these botnets, and as a consequence git.sr.ht is unstable. We<br>have taken some aggressive measures to ensure some service remains available,<br>but for the time being we have disabled a large number of routes for the web<br>service to keep the load managable, which will cause…

git.sr.ht

Disrupted

hg.sr.ht

Operational

builds.sr.ht

Operational

todo.sr.ht

Operational

lists.sr.ht

Operational

man.sr.ht

Operational

meta.sr.ht

Operational

paste.sr.ht

Operational

hub.sr.ht

Operational

pages.sr.ht

Operational

chat.sr.ht

Operational

Incident history

June 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC

SourceHut disrupted by LLM crawlers

This issue is not resolved yet

April 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM UTC

Phishing campaign targetting SourceHut users

Resolved in under a minute

April 22, 2026 at 3:30 PM UTC

SourceHut disrupted due to DDoS attack

Resolved after

656h<br>30m of downtime

April 5, 2026 at 10:00 AM UTC

SourceHut disrupted due to DDoS attack

Resolved after

350h<br>0m of downtime

December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC

git.sr.ht disrupted by LLM crawler botnets

Resolved after

144h<br>0m of downtime

October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM UTC

Planned maintenance on all services

Resolved after

1h<br>25m of downtime

July 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC

Planned maintenance on all services

Resolved after

1h<br>15m of downtime

April 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC

Planned bouncer ugrade on Thursday

Resolved after

5m<br>of downtime

March 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM UTC

LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut

Resolved after

168h<br>30m of downtime

February 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC

Planned maintenance on Tuesday

Resolved after

1h<br>40m of downtime

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