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(edit: it's working now (detecting downdetector's down))

Ehh, so down detector for down detector is up but it is inaccurate.

A wrong downdetectordowntector is worse than a 500 one. :D

You had one job.

So DownDetector is down, but DownDetectorDownDetector does not detect it... We probably need one more DownDetector. (no)

We have one. But according to Down Detector's Down Detector's Down Detector's Down Detector, that's also down.

Well Down Detector's Down Detector isn't down...What we might need is a Down Detector's Down Detector Validator

Yes we do have[^1] but unfortunately it looks like not checking the integrity, just reachability.

So down²detector was fake all along?

So,

It’s down detectors all the way down!

Lol. The fact that the 4x one actually works and is correctly reporting that the 3x one is down actually makes this a lot funnier to me.

it's like they didn't fully think it through/expect people to actually use it so soon

downdetectorsdowndetectors didn't detect breakdown of downdetectors with 500 Error

great news, schrodingersdetector.com is available!

>half the internet is down >downdetector is down >downdetector down detector reports everything is fine

software was a mistake

This is a fake detector that just has frontend logic for mocking realistic data, you can easily see it in the source code.

At least it's still right in spite of being down.