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Re: GCP Outage

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post #285

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The status page is essentially an admission of guilt. It can require approval from the legal department and a high level official from the company to approve updating it and the verbiage used on the status page.

then it’s fucking useless. Let’s crowd source our own

That’s what Downdetector is.

https://downdetector.com/

Re: GCP Outage

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post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The status page is essentially an admission of guilt. It can require approval from the legal department and a high level official from the company to approve updating it and the verbiage used on the status page.

then it’s fucking useless. Let’s crowd source our own

working on it! (valet network)

Re: GCP Outage

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post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The status page is essentially an admission of guilt. It can require approval from the legal department and a high level official from the company to approve updating it and the verbiage used on the status page.

then it’s fucking useless. Let’s crowd source our own

"It can", this is just free-associating, don't let it get to ya. (disclaimer: xoogler)

Re: GCP Outage

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The status page is essentially an admission of guilt. It can require approval from the legal department and a high level official from the company to approve updating it and the verbiage used on the status page.

You are likely right, but it's still gross dishonesty. I'm not ready to let Google and their engineers off the hook for that.

Inter alia, "is essentially", "it can", tell us this is just free-associating.

We should probably avoid punishing them based on free-associating made by a random not-anonymous not-Googler not-Xoogler account on HN. (disclaimer: xoogler)

Re: GCP Outage

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post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The status page is essentially an admission of guilt. It can require approval from the legal department and a high level official from the company to approve updating it and the verbiage used on the status page.

then it’s fucking useless. Let’s crowd source our own

We tried to do that. It didn't work. Too much spam, scams, and abuse.
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