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2026-08-18 Infrastructure Update

Haskell.org's infrastructure services, including Hoogle, downloads.haskell.org, mailing lists, and GitLab, are down as of 2026-08-18 due to server issues. Administrator davean is repairing the filesystem and swapping hard disks to minimize data loss. The outage is partly a response to ongoing LLM scraping problems, according to Hécate.

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2026-08-18 Infrastructure Update
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Hello everyone,

You may have noticed that several of our services are down at the moment (Hoogle, downloads.haskell.org, the mailing-lists, Gitlab).

Our brave and dedicated @davean is currently nursing the server back to health, and is taking all precautions to minimise data loss, which is one of the time-consuming parts.

Please stand by, this thread will be updated with more information as we get it.

Cheers, Hécate

PS: I am told in my earpiece that this is a radically effective approach to counter our ongoing LLM scraping problem. If only there were no downsides whatsoever…

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The recovery process is still underway. There were complications, as usual with these kinds of things. davean is still physically at the server repairing the filesystem. I think there are still some hard disk swaps coming up, too.

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