Down detector always shows everything is down

Teams is working!

Or, rather, it's acting like it usually does.

Right - don't get too ambitious! :D

Yup. I just tried to search my chats for a specific phrase. It came back with nothing, even though I know I used it in a recent conversation.

I just assumed it was Teams being Teams.

Teams: Either It's Working, Or You Are

Funny thing is that my work's VPN that uses the MS authenticator just quit, immediately after I made that comment. So you are even more correct than usual.

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I remember the first version of office communicator, that when installed, left you with about 6hrs of phone battery.

Back on Window Mobile 6.1.

Battery life usage quickly improved. :)

I asked someone in our teams meeting if they were having issues with their outlook today. What followed was a 5 minute hate fest on outlook. I'm not a big fan, but was kind of surprised so many people genuinely hate it.

If you could create a real world Outlook, it'd be like the Office Space fax machine.

The new version which is a skinned web browser is terrible

Office on Mac is like malware. It brings the system to a halt.

The worst part about Outlook is the broken search. In the world of infinitely smart AI, the e-mail search in Outlook is embarrassingly stupid.

It’s not just that it’s stupid. It’s broken. It can’t handle email that is on the server and not on the machine, and they’ve configured the app to store most email only on the server.

That choice is also so stupid. Why doesn't Outlook just store the text of every single email on all devices. The stupid software needs gigabytes of storage, why can't it spend a couple of megabytes on making e-mail actually work.

down detector always looks like this during big cloud service outages. i think partly because people don't actually know what services they're using and report wrong things, and partly because downdetector parses social media posts like "outlook is down but gmail still works" as outlook and gmail both being down.

Not GitHub!

As luck would have it GitHub sign-ups are down https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nwbjzl7nfrc2

I work in IT and people are complaining about Atlassian and about AWS but in reality if your organization is using SSO then that would get impacted.

If your org is using Intune or Defender EDR then you probably also are impacted.

Entra is not impacted, SSO is working for non-M365 apps.

Downdetector does not measure service availability. It's more of a vibes thing.

Downdetector is a survey, not a detector, and suffers from user confusion when a high-profile service is actually down, as users start reporting unrelated things

Especially when looking constitutes reporting (Schrödinger's downdetector?) and people look at everything after showing up for one thing.

It also suffers from people reporting functionally related (but not technical related) things.

Any other service that interacts with Outlook in some way will create downstream effects in other services expecting Outlook to work normally.

The biggest problem with downdetector is how they visualise their outage graphs.

The Y axes are entirely independent, and so when there's an outage for Microsoft Outlook (which peaked at ~130k reports) and you get a negligable spike in pepole who get confused and report gmail (~1k reports), the graphs all look correlated and connected.

They need to show the graphs with an absolute y-axis set by the worst outage, or scale the graphs by estimated average daily users or something.

AWS seems fine?