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Yup - not to plug my own website (others may find it useful) - got a notification for this 14 minutes ago at https://statusnotify.com

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Seems useful, but I would advise to make clear what is the period of the plans.

Is the $20 monthly yearly, one time?

Give us your billing details and you'll find out!

Good point! Updated the page. Its monthly.

Oh man, I'd love to see the aggregate data you've collected over time on some of the services you support! Not to name and shame, but it'd be interesting to see how services rank on reliability.

Ok, maybe to name and shame a little.

How do you monitor all these services?

Don’t know how many up/down votes you’re getting, but a more polite wording is something like:

“In case others find this useful, this is why I built statusnotify.com. I got a notification about this 14 minutes ago.”

Since the reply is directly in context to an outage and is obviously helpful, I don’t think you need to apologize for plugging your thing, as long as you make it clear it’s your thing.

Service looks neat by the way, thanks for sharing. :)

Thanks for the suggestion and taking a look :) Completely agree!

I didn't find his reply non-polite, just personal.

Why do we expect people to be impersonal all the time?

Er, sorry, ironically bad wording on my part. There was a sibling comment calling out the OP for self-promotion and I was trying to suggest an alternative wording that might have avoided that. Not really "politeness" more like... "cordial self-promotion?"

Words are fun :)

I didn't find it impolite at all, either.

But that's exactly what you are doing...

seems like an ok and relevant time to plug your own project IMO. If not now, during the moment its use case is happening, then when?

I believe the complaint was about the disingenuous denial of the plug.

How was it disingenuous? It is not a 'plug' it is a very relevant link. Being disingenuous would be to say "Hey guys, don't mean to plug my website, but here's my basket weaving blog."

I'm not gonna reply to you, but I really disagree with what you're saying and this is my response as to why.

Who. Cares. It's a colloquial usage of the phrase "not to". The clear meaning is that the writer acknowledges a potential negative perception, as a show of good faith, but still believes there's a valid reason to continue.

It's a definition thing. In my opinion it's still a plug even if it's relevant (and that's how some other people seem to read the word too here). So just come right out with it instead of doing the "hey not to plug my website but let me just plug my website" thing

who cares, it's useful at this time.

I don't think it was disingenuous, I read it more like... "normally I wouldn't randomly plug my website, but given the context, I think this thing I built might be super useful to someone".

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