Here's a series of comments discussing why status pages are unreliable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25213817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521

Here's a series of comments discussing why status pages are unreliable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25213817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25213817 Edit: My main takeaway is that it goes against the human instinct of self preservation (losing one's job, opening the company to lawsuits, status pages being used against you by competitor, etc.)