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Do you actually think it will go down for good?

That seems extremely unlikely to me.

No, eventually they would figure out how to rewrite it if they can't get it working again. But I could definitely see a multi-week outage.

Seems to be back up now. Both logged in and logged out states are working.

This thread is just an hour old btw, not sure when the issue started.

Seems like a huge reaction from HN for an hour long downtime given that Twitter has gone down for longer in the past.

They do this every time. Last thread I saw was Twitter had an outage for only 10k people for a short amount of time and HN was having a victory lap.

I personally don't think that 100% uptime for everyone around the globe is even a worthwhile goal for Twitter. The incremental costs for that last 0.5% aren't worth the incremental benefits.

HA is most necessary for what, journalists? (Who are already antagonized under Musk)

Everyone else can wait the hour.

It's down for me and hasn't worked for the entire weekend.

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