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Someone should write a bot that scrapes status.github.com and posts downtimes to HN. There's a lot of Karma to be harvested still.
by m90 8y ago
Someone should write a bot that scrapes status.github.com and posts downtimes to HN. There's a lot of Karma to be harvested still.
- CodyReichert 8y agoYou could have a second bot that posts a comment in the thread each time with something like: "See, this is why you shouldn't use hosted services for your core infrastructure." Lots of karma to be had there as well.
- cirowrc 8y agoYou could have a third bot that posts a comment in the thread each time You could have a second bot that posts a comment in the thread each time with something like: "See, this is why you shouldn't use hosted services for your core infrastructure." Lots of karma to be had there as well. Lots of karma to be had there as well.
- telotortium 8y agoPedantic correction (for NHI): See, this is why you shouldn't use hosted services for your core infrastructure except those that you host yourself :)
- dewey 8y agoMaybe also something about how git is decentralized already and we are all silly for making it central again? Also seems to be one of the regular first 10 comments on a Github downtime...
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoAnd the value of karma is? There are many intelligent people here on HN. The fact that we even mention such a petty concept as karma shows we got hooked up on these little mind tricks just as easily as everyone else.
- mockingbirdy 8y agoIt's easy to say this with thousands of Karma points. I'm trying to leave my kids something. /s Same reason why people are addicted to Candy Crush Saga: it's fun. For nihilists, this is pure amusement in the nothingness.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoBut if you treat it that way, it influences communication. You tend to say something people will approve rather than speaking your mind.
- mockingbirdy 8y agoYeah, pretty weird incentives system. It's difficult to filter and sort comments in online communities in ways that don't lead to such a behavior. But I think people will try to get approval even without any point system. We fall for Karma points because we crave for external validation and want a feeling of belonging because and although we know that we're ultimately alone in our own brain and reduce those pressing feelings of nothingness using approval. I think even without a point system, people would try to get approval. The desire is already in us. The environment just mirrors and intensifies this desire, it doesn't cause it IMO.
- s-shellfish 8y agoYes. Desire to have matching ideas. It's all validation. Whether it's something that keeps us in sync with the world or something that prevents insanity by saying "hey, someone out there thinks just like you", it's necessary. Humans don't do well when they have no reflection of their own self. We are social animals. We are fundamentally dependent on some mechanic that says we are and can be understood. For people who work a lot with their own minds, in abstraction - things that are connected but not directly connected to 'reality', meaning, decisions we make have consequences that aren't immediately obvious, I think that's vital, and I think that's why all these message boards and forums and so have the most nuanced kinds of communication among technical people. It all ties into our own independent stability. Yea, there's issues with group think, people can easily get carried away with a couple variants of reasoning. But that's how communication is supposed to function. I feel like it's so easy to get disconnected from the point of interaction because, we know that the individual we are speaking to directly can be more than one person. Humans are ridiculous creatures in general. To think it's something the internet invented, that's disconnected.
- sigi45 8y agoWe usd github on a commercial project. I was very surprised how often github was not available.
- OskarS 8y agoGiven how frequently those status pages are total bullshit, I'd rather put my faith in you fine community members to do it manually!
- twunde 8y agoIt definitely depends on the company. There are a few companies that are pretty fast to update including Github. Many are ok like Twilio, Atlassian, and Mailgun (not super-fast but definitely updated pretty consistently). Then it follows a long tail where you have companies like AWS who only update after major outages and usually after an hour. Symantec is probably the worst case where I've seen that they started updating and then forgot to finish updating.
- jpmoyn 8y agoIt would be really easy actually. I just checked, and they add the CSS classes `major`, and `minor` to their updates when there are issues, so it would be easy to find with beautiful soup on like a cron job or something.
- geekjock 8y agoOP here - I maintain https://pullreminders.com https://pullreminders.com, so I realized GitHub was down when I started getting alerts about 500s from the GitHub API.
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- Artemis2 8y agoSo you’re already halfway done :-)
- cbm-vic-20 8y agoIt should put up a blue screen of death.
- Hedja 8y agoNo need to scrape it, they have an RSS feed. https://status.github.com/messages.rss https://status.github.com/messages.rss