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by rozenmd 225 days ago
There are increasingly more status pages that automatically update based on uptime data (I built a service providing that - OnlineOrNot)

But early-stage startups typically have engineering own the status page, but as they grow, ownership usually transfers to customer support. These teams optimize for controlling the message rather than technical detail, which explains the shift toward vaguer/slower incident descriptions.