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Meta - can we not post outages to HN? I understand that post mortem's are interesting learning lessons, but if you're curious whether S3 or whatever is down or
by mbesto 7y ago
Meta - can we not post outages to HN?
I understand that post mortem's are interesting learning lessons, but if you're curious whether S3 or whatever is down or not right at this moment, then use the subsequent status pages of those services.
- Kiro 7y agoNo, this is major and should be on top of HN IMO.
- majewsky 7y agoHN is a more reliable status page than most status pages.
- invalidusernam3 7y agoPersonally, I enjoy the speculation and discussion during an outage like this. Also, occasionally someone from the mentioned company pops up in these threads
- sergiomattei 7y agoAgreed. It's fascinating to see speculation and it's almost a game when the real reason is found - we see who got it right! It's also important - many here use Slack, and an outage may be confusing - most of us don't immediately look at status pages, so we have somewhere to go and discuss the happening.
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- untog 7y agoIf we could trust status pages, sure. But I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to use a service, failed, the status page says "all OK!" but Twitter and HN are full of outage reports. Besides, the discussion here is useful. Someone has already pointed out that some messages are getting through despite returning 500s, so integrations are spamming duplicate messages everywhere. That's useful to me if I'm running an integration. (besides x2, it's one thread with a very self explanatory title. Maybe just don't read it?)
- wil421 7y agoAbsolutely not. There are even times when engineers from the company will comment on HN. If you don’t think the article is appropriate flag and move on.
- falcolas 7y agoFWIW, status pages for medium to large companies rarely reflect the actual status of a service. They’re powered by PMs, not monitors.
- psnosignaluk 7y agoI get most of my outage notifications from HN. If it's a blip, it probably won't make the front page through my standard refresh cycle. If it persists through two refresh cycles, there's a TITSUP somewhere and it's time to take a look. This community is awesome. Always someone with their finger on the pulse :)
- ra1n85 7y agoWhy? These events are often great opportunities to learn about system failures and their impact on other systems in real time. Status pages are often not even genuinely accurate.