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I think it's so people realise it's not just them.

• mbesto 5y ago
  Makes no sense. If you're having issues wouldn't you just go directly to <insert service here>'s status page first? Why HN first?
  • 0x0000000 5y ago
    Because status pages lie.
  • astrosi 5y ago
    In many cases the status page of a service is an unreliable indicator (e.g. AWS's) so I find HN / Twitter to be a much better signal that an incident that affects many people is happening.
  • crent 5y ago
    Status pages are just not reliable unfortunately.