[tom1337]

> Canvas is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance

doesn't seem that scheduled to me

[javawizard]

ex-Instructure employee here (though it's been about 10 years since I worked for them).

That's just the quickest page/status update to throw up; it was a one-liner to push it live back when I was on the deploy rotation.

I'd hazard a guess they have more important things to worry about right now than exact status page messaging ;)

[chrisjj]

> That's just the quickest page/status update to throw up

Funny how a lie is always quicker than the truth...

[javawizard]

Oh for god's sake.

In the 99% of cases where this status page is used, it is in fact the truth: we'd throw it up when we had e.g. data migrations to do as part of a rollout that wouldn't allow for our normal zero-downtime deploys.

So no, lies are not always quicker than the truth.

There's plenty to criticize Instructure about; let's not go reaching for straw men in the process.

[chrisjj]

> In the 99% of cases where this status page is used, it is in fact the truth.

Figures. Else people would not fall for the lie.

[podiki]

I thought the same. The "scheduled" part of the message is gone now, at least on the instance I use.

[anematode]

Well, scheduled by whom? :)

[mystraline]

Whoever it is, is likely defended by Cloudflare. They seem to like the booters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025001