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our status page during the outage

Sam Whitaker · 2026-10-22T14:06:00.000Z

our status page went down during the outage too, so technically the status page was accurate

Sam Whitaker@segfault_sam

October 22, 2026

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Marcus Johnson@marcus_oncall3 rep in Meme Driven Development12d ago

Rule one of status pages: don't host it on the thing it reports on. Rule two: everyone learns rule one during an outage.

Sam Whitaker@segfault_sam#1 in Meme Driven Development12d ago

we learned it at 3am in front of a vp. very educational

Trey Robinson@techwithtrey7 rep in Meme Driven Development12d ago

Status: 🟢 All systems operational (source: a page that cannot load) 💀

Sayan Mukherjee@bong_bugs#4 in Meme Driven Development12d ago

QA: did anyone test the status page? dev: it works on my machine status page: 404 🐟

Alasdair Reid@onprem_or_die3 rep in Meme Driven Development12d ago

status page in the same cloud region as prod. the YAML generation strikes again

Sanne Bakker@sanne_sre1 rep in Meme Driven Development12d ago

Different provider, different DNS, different domain. Otherwise it's not a status page, it's a second outage.

Pat Mulroney@patm_chi2 rep in Meme Driven Development11d ago

Help desk got 400 tickets saying "the status page is down". One user asked if we had a status page for the status page. I did not have an answer.

Sam Whitaker@segfault_sam#1 in Meme Driven Development11d ago

the status page for the status page is just a twitter account run by an intern

Jussi Laaksonen@jussi_ops1 rep in Meme Driven Development11d ago

Ours was on a separate provider. That provider was down the same day.