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Pretty sure that's a typo for "degraded". But it's funny.

And someone, somewhere, has further mangled "deprecated" into "depreciated" when reading it aloud, I'm fairly certain.

Me! I'm the notorious mangler!

Just kidding. But there was a sizable fraction of time where I really hadn't heard the word "deprecated" and read it mentally as "depreciated" like an asset.

What do you mean messaging has been depressed?

Yes, it's been replaced by an LLM.

Their status updates look clearly like AI-generated blurbs saying the same thing with varied phrasing, hour after hour. Thanks for the slop? I know writing status page updates is annoying, but “a human is paying attention to this” is the specific thing that status updates are trying to convey, so trying to get info from this page felt dispiriting today.

Edit: this would also explain why some details of the updates were nonsensical.