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It wasn't straight downtime. For a while we were up but you couldn't submit stories or comments.

I've seen this called badtime. Outagelet seems too cute, when I think of downtime as serious business.

(TBF, that is when I am a paying consumer or a paid developer. I'm upset about neither the HN badtime nor the phrase outagelet.)

What about 'browntime'?

That is hilarious. That one will be hard to resist.

Ill get my team to incorporate this in their lexicon and include it in post mortems.

Minimizes perceived downtime.