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Do we really need to be notified every time GitHub or Twitter go down temporarily? It's inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

pwelch 13y ago
Twitter I don't think so but I feel like the majority of people visiting Hack News use Github in some way. Remote Repo, Deploying, Open Source tools that are hosted on Github. Maybe just me...
- Hovertruck 13y ago
  Wouldn't that just mean that they're bound to find out that Github is down without needing to see it on the front page of HN?
  - JeremyMorgan 13y ago
    Good point.
    - rhalff 13y ago
      Is slashdot already notified? nostalgia
      - Domenic_S 13y ago
        Did netcraft confirm it?
  - kamakazizuru 13y ago
    the might assume that its a problem on their end / on their ISP end.. Clearly enough people think its relevant for it to make its way onto the Homepage via upvotes ;)
darkchasma 13y ago
There is a reason there are controls to allow you to upvote, or downvote stories. If you don't like a story, and have nothing to contribute to the story, downvote it. If the story is in the top few, it's because people (that aren't you) are interested in knowing that github is getting attacked. EVERYTHING is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Edit: Heh, there are no downvotes on HN for stories. My bad.
- scribu 13y ago
  OT: How much karma do I need to have to see the downvote button?
  - InclinedPlane 13y ago
    There is no downvote button on submissions only upvote and flag.
    - nonchalance 13y ago
      Should there be downvote buttons for submissions?
      - InclinedPlane 13y ago
        Maybe? I could go both ways. I think downvoting is important but it's also very easily abused. I like stackexchange's downvoting system where it comes at a cost.
  - deleted 13y ago
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  - nsmartt 13y ago
    It is, or was, 500 points.
    - hahainternet 13y ago
      The downvote on users only appeared for me as I pushed past about 650 I believe.
6thSigma 13y ago
I got an error message when trying to connect to the App Store yesterday. The first thing I did was refresh HN to see if there was an outage or issue.
kmfrk 13y ago
Maybe it's a sign someone should look into an expanded notification system. I imagine someone could cook up an interesting IF case for IFTTT. A good way for a company like GitHub to do it might be an RSS feed. That won't necessarily allow to define a status message type indicating the occurrence of the problem vs. the resolution - and the severity of the status problem.
- IvyMike 13y ago
  The do have the linked website (status.github.com) and a twitter account (@githubstatus) which honestly seem pretty sufficient already.
  - mh- 13y ago
    unfortunately, the status page is fairly inaccurate and delayed. (note that I'm not agreeing we should post to HN for every blip)
- mh- 13y ago
  it's not an RSS feed, but: https://status.github.com/api/messages.json https://status.github.com/api/messages.json see: https://status.github.com/api https://status.github.com/api
astrodust 13y ago
An outage of either has a measurable impact on productivity.

pwelch 13y ago

Twitter I don't think so but I feel like the majority of people visiting Hack News use Github in some way. Remote Repo, Deploying, Open Source tools that are hosted on Github. Maybe just me...

Hovertruck 13y ago
Wouldn't that just mean that they're bound to find out that Github is down without needing to see it on the front page of HN?
- JeremyMorgan 13y ago
  Good point.
  - rhalff 13y ago
    Is slashdot already notified? nostalgia
    - Domenic_S 13y ago
      Did netcraft confirm it?
- kamakazizuru 13y ago
  the might assume that its a problem on their end / on their ISP end.. Clearly enough people think its relevant for it to make its way onto the Homepage via upvotes ;)

darkchasma 13y ago

There is a reason there are controls to allow you to upvote, or downvote stories. If you don't like a story, and have nothing to contribute to the story, downvote it. If the story is in the top few, it's because people (that aren't you) are interested in knowing that github is getting attacked. EVERYTHING is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Edit: Heh, there are no downvotes on HN for stories. My bad.

scribu 13y ago
OT: How much karma do I need to have to see the downvote button?
- InclinedPlane 13y ago
  There is no downvote button on submissions only upvote and flag.
  - nonchalance 13y ago
    Should there be downvote buttons for submissions?
    - InclinedPlane 13y ago
      Maybe? I could go both ways. I think downvoting is important but it's also very easily abused. I like stackexchange's downvoting system where it comes at a cost.
- deleted 13y ago
  [deleted]
- nsmartt 13y ago
  It is, or was, 500 points.
  - hahainternet 13y ago
    The downvote on users only appeared for me as I pushed past about 650 I believe.

6thSigma 13y ago

I got an error message when trying to connect to the App Store yesterday. The first thing I did was refresh HN to see if there was an outage or issue.

kmfrk 13y ago

Maybe it's a sign someone should look into an expanded notification system. I imagine someone could cook up an interesting IF case for IFTTT. A good way for a company like GitHub to do it might be an RSS feed. That won't necessarily allow to define a status message type indicating the occurrence of the problem vs. the resolution - and the severity of the status problem.

IvyMike 13y ago
The do have the linked website (status.github.com) and a twitter account (@githubstatus) which honestly seem pretty sufficient already.
- mh- 13y ago
  unfortunately, the status page is fairly inaccurate and delayed. (note that I'm not agreeing we should post to HN for every blip)
mh- 13y ago
it's not an RSS feed, but: https://status.github.com/api/messages.json https://status.github.com/api/messages.json see: https://status.github.com/api https://status.github.com/api

astrodust 13y ago

An outage of either has a measurable impact on productivity.