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by bpfh 5534 days ago
Whether it be due to Anonymous or load from newly released hit games, PSN has been awfully flaky lately. Usually when PSN returns with a helpful integer error message, I hit Twitter and #psn to see if it's just me.

Frustrated with this, I took a few hours and wrote http://isthepsndown.com/. Obviously it's pretty useless at the moment, PSN being down wholesale, but I am hoping in the future it would save a few clicks whenever PSN barfs again.
1 comments
ctide 5534 days ago
Why force a click to see the result? Seems like a good way to ensure you get bogus data.
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bpfh 5534 days ago
Good question. That's why I threw in the Haven't Tried option, but you might be right.
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cookiecaper 5534 days ago
He is right. I would remove the "Haven't Tried" option and reposition the elements so that the status report is prominent and the option for user input is secondary.
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bpfh 5534 days ago
Just implemented this change, and I find it much improved. Thanks.

Now the next thing would be to figure out appropriate network metrics to monitor the PSN server. I suppose portscanning Sony would be considered a bad idea though.

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