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1. esafak+54
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2025-12-17 17:03:28
>>uyzstv+(OP)
A lot of the outage indicators failed. Someone needs to create an outage indicator reliability dashboard.
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2. Nextgr+B4
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2025-12-17 17:04:49
>>esafak+54
A lot of them got fooled by the caching; pages for signed-out users are cached heavily and those kept returning successful responses even if the actual backend server was down.
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3. dizhn+L6
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2025-12-17 17:13:09
>>Nextgr+B4
This site also got it right:
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hacker-news
I believe it's because they accept user reports.
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4. esafak+D7
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2025-12-17 17:16:21
>>dizhn+L6
Yes! Now we see what a difference it makes.
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