[Jasper_]

The point of the status page is so you can point to it for your five nines SLA and go "look? we were only down for one hour". As soon as the money relies on the metric, the metric will reflect the money.

[mjlawson]

Goodhart's Law[1] in action.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

[post-it]

I've noticed everyone posts links in footnotes, is that just Hacker News etiquette?

[Jasper_]

It's old-school plain-text email etiquette. The original Markdown even used a variant of that syntax for its links definition, known as "reference links". https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link

[therealdrag0]

Ya I think so. Since there isn’t a way to make html links with a short text .

[zetalemur]

That's a good one, did not know that. Interesting read.