[GordonS]

Hah, I just did the same thing - before clicking through to the status page, I had a bet with myself that everything would be green. Imagine my surprise when indeed everything was green.

If companies like Amazon and Google are going to outright lie on their status pages, why bother having them at all?

[chrisandchris]

Because somebody (customer) is monitoring the status page and measuring how long it was not green and hold you accountable for your service being down. So it‘s „better“ to update your status page afterwards when your legal team is all on board.

[saurik]

That doesn't answer the question of why bothering to have them at all.

[chrisandchris]

Partially. Don‘t have one: customers complain. Have one, but with lies: customers complain. Have one that shows the truth: legal department complains.

[saurik]

I hope you appreciate that that breakdown also doesn't answer the question of why bothering to have them at all? ;P

[motoxpro]

I know youre joking, but he did, because "customers complain, but legal department doesnt"

[fxleach]

Because it's very profitable to be able to say that you have 5 nines (99.999%) uptime, over your competition with 4 nines or less.

[sodality2]

For the afterwards part, I assume

>So it‘s „better“ to update your status page afterwards when your legal team is all on board

[jagged-chisel]

Because somebody (customer) wants to monitor a status page

[saurik]

But that purpose was explicitly undermined by the status page not providing the actual status!

[ineedasername]

>„better“

Is the initial double quote at the bottom something that is language specific?

[CDRdude]

It seems to be German: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

[chrisandchris]

I did not explicitly create them. HN-app on iOS did them by itself.

And it‘s probably specifiy to German.

[wasmitnetzen]

Technically, German should have them, but barely anyone bothers since they're not on a normal keyboard layout. Some word processors replace them automatically though.

Also, the upper one is “, not ".