Ask HN: Why aren’t Twitter outages showing up on the front page anymore?

15 points·staccatomeasure··8 comments

HN used to be a great source for quick insight into major outages. Feels like lately - and with Twitter in particular - big outages, like the one happening now, never make it to the front page.

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Naughty Ol' Mr Car has fairly comprehensively returned Twitter to the barely-functional state it enjoyed in the late noughties, and no-one bothered posting about Twitter outages then, either. "Kinda broken, might work, who knows" is once more Twitter's default state.

A HN discussion can add value when there's a known reason (DNS?, SSL certificate expired) or work-around, but often the discussion is second guessing or bashing the company.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34980805 has 50 upvotes, 25 comments now and maybe I'm missing the quick insights (I still upvoted).

I mean, I think the main insight is that no, Victoria, you can’t fire most of the staff and expect everything to keep working properly. Thought it’s not a very interesting one; everyone sensible knew this already.

I have to search HN for “Twitter” and sort by “last 24 hours” to get my fix of Twitter Gossip. It seldom appears on the front page anymore.

Yeah, I was surprised I didn't find anything about this outage here since it affected even me in Europe.

Was just wondering the same thing. Ususally HN was the fastest place to find those things in an unbiased way

Some people flag these posts, and flagging affects HN ranking.

I think this is it. A lot of critical Tesla stuff over the years also would get lots of votes/comments but be off front page, the benefit of a diehard fan base

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