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Comment by glenngillen | Hacker News Reader

I don’t know the actual numbers involved, but people are already jumping to the conclusion that it means 70% of customers are impacted.

“Affected” is doing a lot heavy lifting in this headline. The linked page states that a small number of customers are affects. So it’s 70% of a small number. Where “small number” is defined by Atlassian so we don’t really know the impact here. As best as I can tell my own usage has not been impacted at all.

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Our Confluence is working fine and as far as I know has been working fine all week - no one has mentioned it in slack or anything, which I would expect.

I think Atlassian are probably not helping themselves by calling the number of customers "small" rather than saying the actual number or specifying a percentage of total customers.

Every HN discussion about this was rather tame and everyone respected the scope of the outtage. The only one jumping to conclusions at the moment is you.

I replied precisely because the first comment I saw on this thread was “That's one way to say 70% are still unable to access their data, going on a week now.”

I also don’t presume everyone to have read every thread on here every day.

The thread and the post are about a partial outtake and 70% of the affected users are not able to access their data. The comment was a snarky jab at the marketing speech. How you would read into it that the commenter meant that 70% of all Atlassian users are affected is not comprehensible.

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