Yeah I couldn't log in for a bit this morning. It's concerning how often and how many times I tried. Glad it's resolved.
Next time try not to beat a dead horse expecting it to resurrect. :)
So now we call the refresh button CPR?
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#112I got stuck in an infinite loop. Try opening HN -> it's down, better check HN to see everyone talking about a major website being down -> Try opening HN -> loop
Yeah me too. Wake up -> HN down -> That's weird, oh well it's usually only down for a few minutes -> I should check if HN is still down -> That's weird, oh well it's usually only down for a few minutes -> I should check if HN is still down -> loop.
That was a few hours ago. I'm glad this loop is broken.
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#113I was quiet surprised really. HN almost never goes down.
You don't visit enough my friend :)
It's down about 8.4 minutes per week. On 26% of days it doesn't work at least once, and on 12% of days it has more than one consecutive failed check. The longest uptime streak was 24 days
I've been keeping track since exactly 2 years (to the day!) because I was surprised that it seemed briefly down for me on a daily basis. Was I getting unlucky and hitting it every time, or was it just down very often? Nobody posted anything so I started answering the question for myself :p
I've been meaning to post the tracker to HN but there's a pesky bug I want to fix: the "is it currently down" stat. I don't know how this is beyond me but something in the code bugs out. So this is my first time posting about it
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#114When it was down my thought was "damnit, I'll actually have a productive workday now."
Next time you can avoid that fate by opening HN in a private browsing (or whatever your browser calls its equivalent) window. This outage, like the vast majority of HN outages, only affected logged in requests. I suppose you could also just clear your HN cookies in regular browsing window, but then when they fix it you'd have to log in again.
Is it my imagination or did they used to automatically serve you a logged out page when it was down?
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#115As soon as I noticed it was down I came to hacker news to post about it, but...
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
It just reinforces for me that addiction is a human problem not a problem with technology I know dang basically works tirelessly to not change the format in order to not induce those addictive patterns but yet here we all are
It's a website with the smartest people in the world. The level of conversations here are unrivaled in internet communities. It's understandable to be addicted. Lol. I visit this place multiple times a day.
99% of social science or political topics and 50% of technical topics here do not… read as smart, and you’d be much better off spending the same time reading the first chapter of a relevant 101-level college textbook.
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#117TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex
I already knew that. :)
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#119Will we get a post mortem?
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#120A lot of the outage indicators failed. Someone needs to create an outage indicator reliability dashboard.
And an outage reliability indicator for that outage reliability indicator.
We apologize again for the fault in the fault indicator. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.