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Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632048 I think HN is hiding these posts. Maybe status threads
by elwell 6y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632048
I think HN is hiding these posts. Maybe status threads are discouraged now? But they're much more useful than status.slack.com etc.
- geerlingguy 6y agoHN is where we all go when the Internet (or large portions of it) are down. It's more reliable than all the 'downforeveryoneorjustme' or 'downtime monitor' services.
- clappski 6y agoIt's the first page I try when I think I'm having connection issues at least, to verify it's some service that's broken rather than my local network
- spicybright 6y agoAbsolutely. I come here for comments to get an idea from other engineers of what's actually going on. Way more useful than an is it down site.
- detaro 6y ago> Maybe status threads are discouraged now They always have been, since they clearly don't fit the guidelines for what a good submission is and usually leave little for interesting discussions. (unlike postmortems of past outages, which often are good)
- yreg 6y agoYet they are usually incredibly useful for most people here. They should be allowed at least while the event is ongoing.
- noir_lord 6y agoAgreed, when a major service goes down HN is the most accurate overview, often a useful sanity check when its AWS or Slack size orgs before I open an incident with whichever party.
- floatingatoll 6y agoThey've been discouraged for some number of years, but community upvoting manages to get them to the front page now and then regardless.