A lot of the outage indicators failed. Someone needs to create an outage indicator reliability dashboard.
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.
And an outage reliability indicator for that outage reliability indicator.
So a downdetectorsdowndetector.com but for Hacker News?
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.