I can understand your viewpoint but just to offer a counter I always check HN for major outage news when it comes to github/AWS/GCP/Azure. There have often been comments with bits of information as to the cause and remediation efforts.
That's what post mortems are for. Happy for people to submit those.
Also, why are cause and remediation efforts important to you? If you rely on the service and it goes out, what more are you going to learn here that would help you? Genuine question.
> I always check HN for major outage news when it comes to github/AWS/GCP/Azure
Why not just check those status pages? Or check Twitter? HN seems like a weird place to check for it...
(I recognize not in this case, but I certainly noticed this outage and checked HN before the status page was updated)
Because I have to provide information to others in my company about why X is not doing Y. These bits of information help.
> If you rely on the service and it goes out, what more are you going to learn here that would help you?
Roughly the same answer - though I'm also just actively curious what's going on as well in the moment.
>Why not just check those status pages?
I do. HN often has more information.
>Or check Twitter? HN seems like a weird place to check for it...
I don't want to.