Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

I could name plenty of other systems nobody wants and speak to their uptime, too? My Plex server probably has better uptime than GitHub lately but I’m not gonna start pushing my code there. It does its job serving the barbie movie, just like defi tells me who to unfollow.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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Post by piva00 » Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 1:05 PM UTC

shaftoe wrote: post #5

"Some merchants may be seeing a higher-than-usual decline due to Gateway rejections Fraud." Is this really "down"?

For merchants it is, I worked on a marketplace before and having checkout flows with higher than usual declines will eat on your sales. People don't tolerate it so well and will either drop the purchase completely if it's a "want" and not a "need", or will go to the competition to finish the purchase.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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Post by siddharthgoel88 » Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 1:09 PM UTC

shaftoe wrote: post #5

"Some merchants may be seeing a higher-than-usual decline due to Gateway rejections Fraud." Is this really "down"?

For us the rejection rate is 90+% which is equivalent to down for me.

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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Post by bastawhiz » Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 1:19 PM UTC

shaftoe wrote: post #5

"Some merchants may be seeing a higher-than-usual decline due to Gateway rejections Fraud." Is this really "down"?

If a site is being DDoSed and only 10% of legitimate traffic is going through, is it "up"? I think you'd be hard pressed to call that "not down". So if the proximate cause is fraud instead of network requests, how is it any different?

Re: Issue affecting the Gateway API on the Braintree platform

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Post by anaganisk » Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 1:25 PM UTC

m00dy wrote: post #3

Defi has never been down.

But it is illegal depending on the country, Or a scam depending on the receiver, Or centralized if you use a hosted wallet, DeFIs merits on paper sound life changing, but reality is far from it. It's an unorganized, volatile mess.