[Outages-discussion] [outages] Facebook Outage

[Eric Tykwinski]

I would add that the wiki has a pretty big list, though not updated of
service status pages.
https://wiki.outages.org/index.php/Dashboard

Sincerely,

Eric Tykwinski
TrueNet, Inc.
P: 610-429-8300


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Outages-discussion [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org]
> On Behalf Of Gert Doering
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2018 3:34 PM
> To: Chris Mayhew
> Cc: outages-discussion at outages.org; Josh Luthman
> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] Facebook Outage
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 07:20:00PM +0000, Chris Mayhew via Outages wrote:
> > I agree that this is the wrong place for application outages, be it
Slack,
> Facebook or Google.  For those who are concerned when these applications
> go down, it would be more appropriate to start an application outages
list.
> 
> It is not "wrong place".  It is exactly the right place, according to
> the spirit of the list - in particular, the section
> 
>   "The purpose of this list is to have a central place to lookup
>    and report so that end users & network operators know why their
>    services (e-mail, phones, etc) went down eliminating the need to
>    open tons of trouble tickets during a major event"
> 
> It might have been initially formed for "network outages", but tbh,
> "facebook does not work" is going to interest WAY more NOC folks out
> there than "I have lost an E1 in southern nowhere".
> 
> 
> It might be necessary to rewrite the published charter to explicitely
> list "major application outages", if only to avoid this silly repeating
> discussion every few months.  Which, given that those that complain are
> too inconsiderate to use outages-discussion, creates MORE traffic than
> real outages of the past few weeks...
> 
> gert
> 
> 
> --
> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
>  feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never
> doubted
>  it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
>                              Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh
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> 
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany
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