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Comment by asdfasgasdgasdg | Hacker News Reader

There's a front page story every time google, apple or Amazon are down. I'm not sure telegram warrants the same publicity but it doesn't seem completely inappropriate.

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The question is, why is the link to telegram's homepage? It's not down, and has 0 information on what is happening.

Maybe someone is doing a social experiment to see how many HNers read before voting?

I've honestly never understood why these sorts of posts (even for those larger companies with services everyone relies on) get so much traction on HN. I can very easily tell for myself when a site is down, and it's not hard to find most companies' service status page. Sure, if a few days later we get an interesting/detailed post-mortem from the company, I'd find that interesting, but "X is down" does not tickle me intellectually at all, and just wastes a slot on the front page. The inevitable speculation as to whether it was a bad deploy, a bad configuration update, a DDoS attack, whatever, is just not really interesting, though I guess (IMO unfortunately) enough people here find it interesting.

Of course, I'm here commenting, so somehow I got enticed to click through to the comments, so who knows what that says about me...

A bunch of people use telegram bots as a means of alerting themselves/other users (instead of emails and/or sms messages).

The production server might have a 150 load, with swap 99% full and 0 disk space left right now, and you wouldn't get any alerts from the monitoring software, because telegram is down, and it has "never happened before".

Following the events outage is usually a pretty interesting drama, to me.

Usually that at least comes with a status page or a news article about the impact or something. This just links the product.

Telegram is used by enough furries that the Telegram Twitter account jokes about it, and a lot of furries are in tech.

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