Curious why was this prior post flagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28789838

'Major' issues. Does this mean that the whole JavaScript ecosystem using NPM is completely down?

You know what I am going to say:

   Why are we still centralising everything and where are the alternatives?

I found out because my CircleCI jobs were failing to `npm install`. Guess the deploy will have to wait...