https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/ username check API blocks donations during outage

[Firefishy]

https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/ does an OSM.org username API lookup during donation flow. This breaks during OSM.org API outage and the donation cannot be completed.

[Firefishy]

Not really an operations team issue, but just logging for now.

[DavidKarlas]

It proceeds after exactly 80 seconds in case it helps debugging.

[Firefishy]

I think the relevant code is likely here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/osmf-verify-contributor
@grischard @datendelphin may be able to confirm.

[datendelphin]

I think it is rather this one https://github.com/grischard/org.openstreetmap.username