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HN should really have a “Down HN” category, as this is the most reliable place to get this information.
by larsnystrom 4y ago
HN should really have a “Down HN” category, as this is the most reliable place to get this information.
- jonas-w 4y agoEverytime something has degraded performance or is down for me: 1. check my internet connection 2. check HN 3. check official statuspage
- stavros 4y agoSurely you can skip the first step, as the second combines them.
- XCSme 4y ago> check my internet connection How do you do that?
- mpsprd 4y agoHN is de facto the fastest secondary source for any current event related to tech.
- sveeeeeene 4y agoI also use it for connectivity check. Most other sites have so much ads and cookies it creates long lags with adblock in some older systems I use. So I point to HN and get a really fast response that the web is working
- vrosas 4y agoOne time HN was itself down and that was a confusing experience
- ithkuil 4y agoI check HN first because that also checks my internet connection :-) that said, HN is also down a lot lately, but that the kind of outage that makes more more productive actually!
- smcl 4y agoStep #3 is unfortunately often pointless given that often either: 1. the status page is unavailable too 2. the status page reports the service as green/available even though it's red/down (maybe it's still accessible to the service pinging its health status, maybe it's "accessible" but not actually functional, maybe the engineers were too busy fixing the problem to click the button to update the status page, maybe not updating the status lets them pretend they're within SLAs or KPIs)
- gibspaulding 4y agoI suppose a static html page saying everything is fine hosted on the same infrastructure as your service would be an accurate indicator a good chunk of the time.
- smcl 4y agoYeah it gives you a bit of confidence that the problem may not be something on your end. I don't think there's a perfect way to handle this, though.
- pixl97 4y agoMost places don't have an automated status page because of the issues with automation showing outages when they don't exist. Someone manually goes and clicks something on the status page.
- harrisi 4y agoThis doesn't seem like a good reason. I can't imagine anyone checks githubstatus.com before accessing github.com. People check it after they have issues. I assume it's more due to contracts, marketing, and denying responsibility.
- rozab 4y agoAnd if HN is down, you know it's a biggie
- Waterluvian 4y agoI find downdetector to be quite reliable. You can pick up on a spike of reports very quickly. HN though comes with all the commentary.
- da768 4y agoExcept for ISPs. Whenever a major website goes down, people blame their ISPs. When their own provider goes down, they don't remember which one they use and blame every other one in their region as well.
- Waterluvian 4y agoHahah yes. It’s useless for tracking my ISP. Luckily my ISP is super nerdy and respond within minutes on their dslreports forum.
- baby 4y agoit'd be cool if HN would check the status of Github periodically and turn into a "we're partying now" kind of UI when Github is down.