Perhaps their detection logic is running on Google cloud /s

throitallaway · 2025-06-12T19:17:05 1749755825

I believe Downdetector displays user reports.

brentm · 2025-06-12T19:45:49 1749757549

Yea I am pretty sure that if you're checking if a service is down your essentially casting a vote that indicates that service is down.

lysace · 2025-06-12T20:13:37 1749759217

Kind of a missed opportunity for Ookla - who's running both downdetector.com and speedtest.net.

The have software running in most ISPs around the world:

(OTOH, it's not always trivial to define/detect an outage.)