New top story on Hacker News: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”
140 by donpdonp | 79 comments on Hacker News.
Updates to gist are getting lost. It accepts them as normal but the next page load for the gist is the previous version. Twitter accounts describe the same sort of problem for git repos. status.github.com reports "We're failing over a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com."