alt Hacker NewsThe pattern recently is to collect every individual service degradation and present them as all equally significant.
Erase the severity and then present them all as “GitHub outages” or reduce it to an uptime graph.
I’m not happy with GitHub’s recent major outages either, but there is an ugly side of the pile-on where we’re getting these vibecoded attention seeking websites and social media posts to collect upvotes, likes, karma, and attention that blur the lines between small service degradations and total site outages to be more dramatic.
Every time a github outage is posted I start wondering more and more what % of hacker news commenters have actually worked on a system with >10k active hosts and have seen what it takes to run them and how internal dashboards are presented. So much of the criticism just makes 0 sense especially the third party uptime pages.