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Why is this not reflected on their main front page? I was pulling my hair out a few hours ago trying to figure out why flux kept failing to install into a cluster and finally realized it was getting 503 attempting to pull images from docker hub, but went there and saw no indication of a problem. Even this status page right now interestingly shows 100% uptime for the registry api for April 15th. Clearly, that isn't true.

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Beware these sort of status pages are not automatic.

In most large orgs, updating public status pages are whole 30+ minute process, as the message must be explained to the customer care team, drafted, vetted if it's something worthy of appearing in HN, put into the application, reviewed before putting it live, then published.

There are some (all?) players in the status page business that can integrate monitoring sources with results live, but no one will use those for fear of publishing downtime when there's not.

As a customer, I'd rather you report fake downtime than fake uptime, but that's how it is.

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