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by o-__-o 2197 days ago
When we started broadcasting status checks we thought it would be a great way to let users know what's happening behind the scenes. Then it turned out a lot of our happenings were self-inflicted so rather than being less transparent by way of less posts, we just tweaked our status outputs. "We are experiencing an event in <SOME VERY HIGH LEVEL SERVICE>" x1042. After we perform our RCA then we may post a blog about it or a short PR blurb

The last time we went down I questioned out loud the point of the status page and the general consensus was for others to be able to reference our outage.