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Overleaf is down - people missing deadlines!
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.

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.
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).
Now their status page is returning a 403.

"Request blocked. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation. "