Why is the Google Status dashboard slower than HackerNews at reporting the downtime?
To get ahead of the cynics — it would not serve the least generous of Google's objectives to be less than transparent about downtime — people figuring it out while the dashboard is green looks much worse.
To get ahead of the cynics — it would not serve the least generous of Google's objectives to be less than transparent about downtime — people figuring it out while the dashboard is green looks much worse.