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📣 IG_Semmelweiss

Flagging outage reports ?


Reporting "Service is down" for certain companies get automatically flagged / taken down. The status page shows no problems, but not all is well under the hood.

As of right now 7:52 CET, I've verified that CLICKUP DOCS and customer support are not working. Clickup DOCS are the equivalent of Google Drive And, this can't be reported, since customer support is also down. I've submitted that here [1].

If you work primarily on Google Drive, it's a pretty big deal if you can't access your documents. So now we have established this is not a minor feature, then the next step is - is the outage valid ?

I have tested the outage on: - 3 unrelated company accounts, and - 3 different apps (mobile, desktop, web).

So, the question is - if the outage is - severe - replicable

Is there something (such as a clean status page) that will result in a flag of the submission ? Or is there something else going on? This is not the 1st time it happens [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=38122136 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262303

  👤 wglb Accepted Answer ✓
Status reports about the universe of down services is not satisfying of intellectual curiosity. HN is not a place to report outages.
👤 akerl_
I didn't see those posts, but I generally flag outage posts because ~"hey this site is down" isn't something that I believe gratifies intellectual curiosity.