This is one of the top 10 sites world wide being down for over an hour now.
Why is Google Talk down, which affects a fraction of the users, on the front page but Twitter is being actively censored?
Besides, HN comments are a lot of times more insightful and interesting than the link. We might have gotten a Twitter engineer commenting on what was going on or something else interesting.
> This is one of the top 10 sites world wide being down for over an hour now.
sure, and it's big news on outages@outages.org. (which used to be just fiber cuts but has evolved into 'major webapp down' notices, too.) - the idea behind outages@outages.org is to notify network operators when services that may impact them are down. The idea is that if my customer is complaining about things being slow to boston, well, if I read outages that morning, I might remember a fiber cut that would explain it. I guess the same could be true if my customers were complaining about not being able to get to twitter.
(personally, I'm in the camp that gets irritated when "random webapp is down" messages are posted to outages@outages.org. I don't care that twitter is down. I've chosen my customers well enough that they don't complain to me when something that is obviously not my fault like that happens. But, I am only one person, and the majority have spoken; I won't fight it. I will whine a little, though.)
News.ycombinator is not about outages, and really not about network and systems operators. Most of you use IAAS or PAAS. Though so far, I've seen a lot of tolerance for interesting network and systems operator stories.
But yeah, "x is down" is... not an interesting story. "X went down earlier today; here is what happened" sometimes is.
>Besides, HN comments are a lot of times more insightful and interesting than the link. We might have gotten a Twitter engineer commenting on what was going on or something else interesting.
I think uninteresting articles ought to be voted down or flagged or otherwise gotten rid of. If the comments are more interesting than the article, then it's an uninteresting article, unworthy of the front page link.
>Why is Google Talk down, which affects a fraction of the users, on the front page but Twitter is being actively censored?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I suspect, though, that instead of getting 'censored' here, that hacker news readers are flagging it as not very interesting.
Come back with a story once they have a 'lessons learned' type document; something telling us what happened.