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Who cares? By the time this item gets upvotes the sites are almost always fixed. Is this hacker news worthy? I suggest we ban these submissions. This is the sec
by WestCoastJustin 13y ago
Who cares? By the time this item gets upvotes the sites are almost always fixed. Is this hacker news worthy? I suggest we ban these submissions. This is the second, X is down notice today, Github [1] and Dropbox [2]. Personally, I'd much prefer a submission to https://status.github.com/ https://status.github.com/ with a comment about the Major service outage. Posting the Github.com link is next to useless.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793948
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792510
- dreen 13y ago+1
- bdcravens 13y agoI think it's fine to post about outages - that's relevant news, and even if site is back up, always results in relevant and theoretically good discussion. I do agree that linking to the URL that's down is a special kind of stupid. At that point, it's a non-link, and there's little value in watching my browser spin.
- jt2190 13y agoAgree. It turns HN into a defacto Github status monitoring tool. See these many examples: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22github+is+down%22&start=0 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%2...
- naranja 13y ago100% FullAck : Who cares! Git is a DISTRIBUTED VCS exactly for this reason, so there is absolutely _no point at all_ to bother HN unless its a full outage lasting longer than 1 day.
- cybernoodles 13y agoExactly. And anyone who needs to know will certainly not have to rely on Hacker News to find out.