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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars? by saurik on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:04AM (#29483773)
That doesn't answer the question of why bothering to have them at all.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars? by chrisandchris on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @08:07AM (#29484244)
Partially. Don‘t have one: customers complain. Have one, but with lies: customers complain. Have one that shows the truth: legal department complains.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars? by saurik on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:22AM (#29484999)
I hope you appreciate that that breakdown also doesn't answer the question of why bothering to have them at all? ;P
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars? by motoxpro on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:09PM (#29488217)
I know youre joking, but he did, because "customers complain, but legal department doesnt"
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars? by fxleach on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:35AM (#29485164)
Because it's very profitable to be able to say that you have 5 nines (99.999%) uptime, over your competition with 4 nines or less.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars? by sodality2 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:21AM (#29483879)
For the afterwards part, I assume

>So it‘s „better“ to update your status page afterwards when your legal team is all on board

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars? by jagged-chisel on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @07:22AM (#29483885)
Because somebody (customer) wants to monitor a status page
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else getting a 500 on their Google Calendars? by saurik on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:24AM (#29485029)
But that purpose was explicitly undermined by the status page not providing the actual status!
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