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Comment by naikrovek | Hacker News Reader

> Yet somehow https://www.githubstatus.com is ALL GREEN! smh

this is because status pages, at least the green/yellow/red light bits, are usually updated manually by a human. because if you automate those things, the automation can fail.

also, it's a weekend, a holiday weekend for some, so expecting updates to happen on the minute is a little unrealistic.

ALSO, it may take a bit of time for their "what is and is not really down" process a bit of time to be followed. on the weekend. by people who maybe haven't done this before outside of a training event 9 months ago or something.

> somehow

it is not hard to imagine how, to me.

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Perhaps it would be useful to have a sort of different shade of green/yellow/red (perhaps striped?) indicating it's a value determined by automatic processes, not yet confirmed by a human.

At least that way, as a user of the service, you can make the assumption that it could be broken, and act accordingly, or at least take certain precautions while you wait for the human-confirmed status value.

yeah, even though I defend the inability to change the status page instantly, it is clearly an imperfect system.

A company the size of Microsoft can not hide behind - "it's weekend we also need a break".

I assume a company this size has teams working around the clock, the question is the priority. I guess GitHub doesn't have a high enough priority which is very sad.

I understand it's humans but we're also humans and we managed to figure out exactly what's up and what's down and we even reported it very conveniently here on HN for the people at GitHub for free

Sorry for the rant I spent a few very confused minutes trying to understand wtf I'm doing wrong, because naive me was thinking there's no way GitHub is down....

anything can go down, and has. the only thing I know of that hasn't is the internet as a whole. some parts go offline, but the internet itself, as a cohesive system, has never failed.

I bet it will one day, what with legislative "kill switches" being a thing.

Is it really that difficult to have a system run redundantly? (Not trying to be sarcastic here)

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