talonx

AI slop-code has exacerbated the problem and GitHub is not able to keep up. If you look at the last 12 month's outage reports from GitHub's own status page, many of them mention capacity issues as an underlying cause.

They don't have straightforward status pages or APIs to detect outages - I think that's the reason they are not listed.

Services like Cloudflare and Twilio have so many POPs globally that one or more always have an outage going on. Then there's the question of whether it's a major outage or a minor outage. Even though major status page providers like Atlassian and Incident.io have public status APIs (Cloudflare uses Atlassian), it takes more than just parsing them to determine what is "down" and at what granularity.

I run an outage detection service - and some of these issues, like parsing hundreds of - sometimes undocumented - status APIs, make for an interesting engineering problem.

Oh thank you! I sorely miss the original HS website.

And worse - when I open Google News all the news under Technology is about the latest mobile phones and "gadgets".

I remember Firefox used to have this cool feature where you could detect any RSS feeds on the page you have open.

Now if I don't see it on a page I check the page source - some blogs don't advertise the feed but it's there.