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One day you'll learn about the one Russian submariner who saved all of our web services from destruction.

Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

A few years ago GH actually had a fairly transparent status page that displayed error rates across components over narrow timeslices. I guess they canned it not too long after their $100M a16z raise.

GitHub generally do monthly uptime reports that go into more detail about any outages they experienced, see the latest one here https://github.blog/2021-02-02-github-availability-report-ja...

I really enjoy seeing the postmortems that some teams publish after these kinds of things.

But there was customer communication. It's checked off the list, see?

Because they are glorified marketing pages.