What value does it add to HN to have outages like this reported? As far as I can see, and as I said elsewhere, if you're affected you'll already know, and if you're not affected it won't matter.
I concede that it was important to you, as no doubt it was important to many. The question is, why should it be posted to HN? There might be value in a longer post with real analysis of outage statistics and patterns, but this isn't it.
I don't think the point is to merely be aware of the outage (as most who rely on github so heavily would most likely already have checks in place to notify them), but rather start a conversation, no matter how un-actionable, on whether the next guy should be using github.
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What value does it add to HN to have outages like this reported? As far as I can see, and as I said elsewhere, if you're affected you'll already know, and if you're not affected it won't matter.
I concede that it was important to you, as no doubt it was important to many. The question is, why should it be posted to HN? There might be value in a longer post with real analysis of outage statistics and patterns, but this isn't it.
I don't think the point is to merely be aware of the outage (as most who rely on github so heavily would most likely already have checks in place to notify them), but rather start a conversation, no matter how un-actionable, on whether the next guy should be using github.