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Overleaf is down - people missing deadlines!

7 points by graemep ↗ HN
Overleaf is down. https://status.overleaf.com/

There are people who are not going to graduate because of this. There are conference papers that will miss deadlines.

My daughter has a dissertation deadline coming up - but has backups and she has TexStudio installed. A bit of extra work maybe, but no disaster. For a lot of other people it is going to have real consequences.

Relying on SaaS gives you a single point of failure and the results can be disastrous.

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crichter
That’s why I always recommend using the overleaf git integration. It automatically creates a commit upon pulling from the generated overleaf git remote, in case something changed on the web frontend. Gives additional safety against data loss, and is also convenient because one can track changes in git instead of the overleaf interface.
aborsy
You can self host the community edition of the overleaf. It provides most features you find in the public offering (auto complete for references and grammar suggestion are missing).