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GitHub should let users know about problems and downtimes

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GitHub should let users know about problems and downtimes

#1
When Github has problem they should show a banner or another sign in the main website about it. I'm a paying customer who hugely depends on their service. I shouldn't investigate if GitHub has a problem. I know that they have a status page, but it's not enough at all. When a problem occurs, the first thing that I do is to check if I did something wrong, Sometimes it more than few minutes. You can multiple this with dozens developers in my company (and most of them don't even know about this page).

Re: GitHub should let users know about problems and downtimes

#2
As you alluded to, there is a status page (https://www.githubstatus.com/) and there is probably a simple reason that they don't rely on their main site to show critical status.

Hosting the status of the current service using the current service is not traditionally a winning combination.