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Incident update and uptime reporting

There has been some confusion during some recent incidents that we’d like to address. Some of the confusion stems from our status pages/banners that we’re going to update. The other point of ...
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Stack status incorrect during yesterday’s maintenance/outage [duplicate]

Stack Exchange was in read-only mode all yesterday afternoon Sydney time, at least between 2PM and 6PM AEDT October 30, which would be between 3AM and 7AM UTC October 30. The message I received when ...
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Stackstatus.net is no longer a blog. Can we stop calling it that?

I was greeted with the "offline for maintenance" page just now. It appears to have been a short service interruption, as the page I was looking for loaded just fine 2 minutes later. Looking ...
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Is stackstatus.com related to stackstatus.net?

I googled stackstatus today and the first result shown was https://www.stackstatus.com Is the domain somehow related to https://www.stackstatus.net? (This was the second result.)
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Dead link in "Offline for maintenance" page [duplicate]

There was a brief outage today, during which I couldn't load any Stack Exchange sites. Eventually I got this webpage: The "status blog" link goes to http://stackstatus.net, which was a ...
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What happened to old postmortems on stackstatus.net?

In 2016, Stack Overflow had an outage due to catastrophic backtracking in a regex. There's a tweet about the outage, which links to the postmortem on stackstatus.net. That link is now dead. I've tried ...
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There is a full stop missing in the stackstatus header

I think maybe there's a full stop missing in the second sentence of the stackstatus header? It strikes me as odd that the first sentence has a full stop but the second sentence doesn't.
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Stack Overflow's status page (stackstatus.net) does not mention a recent planned maintenance

In Stack Overflow's status page it's clearly written: However, that's just not true. There was a planned maintenance yesterday, announced a week in advance, however it's not mentioned in the status ...
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Read-only mode banner has broken link to stackstatus.net

The banner that appears on the sites when they're in read-only mode reads as follows: This site is currently in read-only mode. We’ll return with full functionality soon. Follow @StackStatus, visit ...
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What timezone is that stack-status page on, and can we have it behave normal(ish)?

The latest maintenance announcement has as a title: Planned maintenance scheduled for Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 00:00-03:00 AM UTC (Monday, August 22, 8:00-11:00 PM US/EDT) When I visit ...
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The StackStatus website does not resolve without a preceding "www" in the URL

The somewhat-recently launched StackStatus website requires www in order to properly resolve. Without it, the connection to the website will eventually time out. For clarity: Working: https://www....
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Status blog doesn't show maintenance? [duplicate]

As I'm attempting to view some of the featured questions on rpg.se, I get the following sight: Because I didn't see any featured maintenance posts on meta, I decided to go to the status blog: As you ...
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Is the Global Status Page broken?

There was just an outage of at least a portion, if not the whole, SE network. I went to the Global Status Page to see what was going on and it was identified as an Outage. Now, there's no reference to ...
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How are maintenance issues logged on stackstatus.net?

For the testing of a new traffic management tool there was an entry on the recently renewed stackstatus.net. I remember clearly because I asked about that posting in my answer here. Looking back today ...
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Change status blog address to https://www.stackstatus.net/ in the offline for maintenance page

When the site if offline for maintenance, we see this: The status blog currently links to https://stackstatus.net which is down for some people (myself included) for reasons described in this comment....
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Notify me only of actual incidents when subscribed to Stack Overflow status page (stackstatus.net)

I noticed this in my inbox today: When I subscribed to the status page, I expected to get emails only for actual incidents, that also appear in the history page (e.g. this one), but alas, looks like ...
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Improvements to site status and incident communication

TL;DR: Starting on the 8th of June, 2022, our status page will be updated automatically, bringing us closer to our goal of better communicating outage statuses with our community. The URL stackstatus....
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Cannot see image on stackstatus.net in environments where Tumblr is blocked [closed]

On stackstatus.net, the image is invalid on the right part of the screen. You should update the image so it shows. My school's firewall blocks Tumblr. Maybe you could make it so stack exchange hosts ...
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Change the HTTP status blog links to HTTPS

In the "We are currently offline for maintenance" page, the status blog link is a HTTP one. Please change it to HTTPS. Also, in the header which is shown when the site is in read-only mode, ...
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Can we reinstate stackstatus.net as a channel to update on any reliability/availability issues on the network?

This question was prompted by this answer by employee Mike Frank, from the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team. In his answer Mike states: We're looking at how we can better plan and notify for ...
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Remove link to abandoned Stack Status blog from read-only mode banner

The banner suggests checking the @StackStatus Twitter account, or the status blog. However the latter hasn't been updated in over a year: Not only is today's outage not mentioned, but neither is ...
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What is the status of stackstatus.net?

A few minutes ago (around 19:50 UTC, on 26 June 2019), the main pages of SE websites said there was a server maintenance, giving two links, one to twitter @StackStatus and the other to Stack Exchange ...
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stackstatus.net SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

Apparently stackstatus.net is being served over https using the tumblr certificated instead of it's own domain. I presume there should have its own certificated.
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Missing outage postmortem for 2015-05-05

The Stack Exchange network experienced a network-wide outage on May 5 (Note: due to timezone differences dates may be off by one): StackExchange Status ‏@StackStatus May 5 We are investigating ...
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Chat is down. Where can I find when it'll be back up? [closed]

Chat is down network-wide. Where can I find when it'll be back up?
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Date of twitter update at stackstatus [closed]

As mentioned in the answer here stackstatus.net displays the last @StackStatus tweet. It would be really useful to include the date of that tweet on stackstatus.net so we don't have to follow the ...
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Wrong dates for Stack Exchange Network Status posts?

There seems to be something not quite right about some recent posts to stackstatus.net, the "Stack Exchange Network Status" blog. The most recent post titled Data Explorer Maintenance - July 21, 2014 ...
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Can @StackStatus tweets be posted to StackStatus.net automatically?

While it sounds crazy, some of us do not actually have twitter accounts and really do not use twitter at all, so we don't see tweets from @StackStatus. This is especially true for users behind ...
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Why are bugs invading Stack Exchange? [duplicate]

In the past hour, we've had 9 10 meta posts reporting various bugs. Pages are showing no questions, questions are getting flipped/mixed up, etc. Clearly, this is not a coincidence. Stack Exchange is ...
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stackstatus shows the same message twice

https://stackstatus.tumblr.com/post/63386951108/we-are-back-online-after-a-build-caused-some https://stackstatus.tumblr.com/post/61776482244/we-are-spinning-up-our-oregon-data-center-now https://...
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