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I might be alone on this but I find it strange that "XYZ Website is DOWN!!!" is considered news worthy. I mean, if it's down and I care I know it because... it'
by flippyhead 11y ago
I might be alone on this but I find it strange that "XYZ Website is DOWN!!!" is considered news worthy. I mean, if it's down and I care I know it because... it's down. If I don't use it, why do I care again?
But then again, I never read tech crunch anymore because of different but identical crap.
- Zikes 11y agoI have to agree. When it's something big and business-critical, like AWS or Azure or some other major host, that's newsworthy, but honestly we should expect something like Slack to go down occasionally. So we can't chat for a few hours on a Monday, email and other business-critical lines of communication are still working just fine. On the other hand, I don't particularly mind it, either. It's not hurting anything, and maybe we need an excuse to dig up the old "proprietary communication vs IRC" argument now and then, just for kicks.
- simonw 11y agoSlack has become business critical at many companies - quite possibly including TechCrunch (lots of media companies with distributed journalists use Slack to co-ordinate everything).
- sharkweek 11y agoHere's why these articles are written: http://imgur.com/zgYvwmj http://imgur.com/zgYvwmj
- dang 11y agoOn HN we penalize such articles, plus users flag them heavily.