alt Hacker News> For a long time they would have global outages where the status page would list everything as green and the only reason you'd know something was wrong was the forum threads. Their response was that they were too busy fixing the issues to update the status board. Right.
Are you talking about AWS or Fly here? I seriously cannot tell.
I've certainly experienced it with AWS too where the explanation was that so many SLAs were tied to that green light that it had to have really senior sign off which is also insane. But the big difference is the frequency of impact.