It's not. You might be joking, but that comment still isn't helpful.
My understanding is this is part of Google's internal PSD offering (Public Status Board) which uses SCS (Static Content Service) behind GFE (Google Frontend) which is hosted on Borg, and deploys other large scale apps such as Search, Drive, YouTube, etc.
Wellp. Incident report: "We posted our first incident report to Cloud Service Health about ~1h after the start of the crashes, due to the Cloud Service Health infrastructure being down due to this outage."
How could it not be helpful given that it gave you reason to provide more details that you wouldn't have otherwise shared? You may not have thought this through. There is nothing more helpful. Unless you think your own comment isn't helpful, but then...
Cunningham's Law emerged in the newsgroups era, well predating the existence of IRC.
Of course, I recognize that you purposefully pulled the Cunningham's Law trigger so that you, too, would gain additional knowledge that nobody would have told you about otherwise, as one logically would. And that you played it off as some kind of derision towards doing that all while doing it yourself made it especially funny. Well done!
I have 0 idea what Cunningham's Law is, so we can both agree that "recognizing purpose" was "mind-reading", in this case. I didn't really bother reading the rest after the first sentence because I saw something about how I joking and congratulating me in my peripheral vision.
It is what it says on the tin: choosing to lie doesn't mean you want the truth communicated.
I apologize that it comes across as aggro, its just that I'm not quite as giggly about this as you are. I think I can safely assume you're old enough to recognize some deleterious effects of lying
You had no idea what it is. Now you know thanks to you the lie you told.
> choosing to lie doesn't mean you want the truth communicated.
But you're going to get it either way, so if you do lie, expect it. If you don't want it – don't lie, I guess. It is inconceivable that someone wouldn't want to learn about the truth, though. Sadly, despite your efforts in enacting Cunningham again, I don't have more information to give you here.
> I apologize that it comes across as aggro
It doesn't. Attaching human attributes to software would be plain weird.
> I think I can safely assume you're old enough to recognize some deleterious effects of lying
Time and place. While it can be disastrous in the right context, context is significant. It makes no difference in a place of entertainment, as is the case here. Entertainment has always been rooted in tales that aren't true. No matter how old you are, even young children understand that.
So even then, it should have been able to correctly report the status, it somehow shows that the status page is not automated and any change there needs to go through someone manual.
A program that updates the status page failing does not imply that the status page is manually edited. It is not like you would generate a status page on every request.
How hard is it for the frontend to detect if the last update to the status page was made a while ago and that itself implies there is an error and should be reported ?
the services ARE healthy, status page is correct. The backbone which links YOU to the service isn't healthy. Take a look at cloudflare, they are already working on it
