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> Maybe status threads are discouraged now

They always have been, since they clearly don't fit the guidelines for what a good submission is and usually leave little for interesting discussions. (unlike postmortems of past outages, which often are good)



Yet they are usually incredibly useful for most people here. They should be allowed at least while the event is ongoing.


Agreed, when a major service goes down HN is the most accurate overview, often a useful sanity check when its AWS or Slack size orgs before I open an incident with whichever party.




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