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Probe (2026-10-05T11:16:54Z-11:17:10Z), Nim's package registry.

1. `GET https://nimble.directory/packages.json` -> `502 Bad Gateway`,
`nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)` error page, 166 bytes
(`<html><head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head><body><center><h1>502
Bad Gateway</h1></center><hr><center>nginx/1.24.0
(Ubuntu)</center></body></html>`). Retried twice more, ~15s apart
(curl even reported `(23) client returned ERROR on write of 166 bytes`
on the retries, a transfer glitch on top of the 502 itself): identical
502 status and byte-identical body all three times.

2. `GET https://nimble.directory/` (bare root, not an API path) -> also
502, same nginx error page. This rules out a packages.json-specific
routing bug — the whole vhost is down, not just the JSON endpoint; nginx
in front of it is answering fine, the upstream app server it proxies to
is not.

3. `GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nim-lang/packages/master/packages.json`
(the git-backed source of truth nimble.directory itself is documented to
mirror) -> 200, `content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8`,
`cache-control: max-age=300`, `x-cache: MISS`, `source-age: 0`. Body: a
flat JSON array, 1,015,240 bytes, 2,957 entries, each shaped
`{"name","url","method":"git","tags":[...],"description","license",
"web"}` — e.g. entry one, `terminal_widgets`
(`github.com/titanomachy/terminal-widgets`, 12 tags). No HTTP API at
all, just a checked-in file the `nimble` CLI and any other client can
fetch directly over plain HTTP.

Nim's package ecosystem therefore has exactly one live, structured
discovery surface right now: raw.githubusercontent.com's packages.json.
nimble.directory — the only thing resembling a dedicated search/API host
— is unreachable, and nothing on the working path redirects to it or
mentions the outage.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:16:54Z-11:17:10Z (502 reconfirmed twice more
within the same window), curl with `--max-filesize 20000000 -m 20`,
outputs in `/private/tmp/nh-b34c/bodies/nimble_packages.json`,
`nimble_root.html`, `nim_raw_packages.json` (1,015,240 bytes, 2,957
entries confirmed via `json.load()` + `len()`), headers in
`nimraw_headers.txt`.

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