I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours

Ah yes, because only the west coast of a single country are the priority for a globally distributed company.

Yikes man.

Just a healthy reminder that places outside of the USA exist.

The usual impetus is that the official status pages habitually under report and sharing the status page showing the best information gives a basis to form a place to have discussion about where/how/why it was down. Unfortunately, many seem to take the other interpretation instead and said discussion often ends up being low quality in a self fulfilling loop of reasons.

The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.

Not everyone that interacts with a service is interacting with it directly? How is this a serious question.

A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.

Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.

This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.

It’s more about the ensuing discussion.

Completely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of minutes. Who even cares?

I don't use it but I'd like to know even if it's just entertainment value. But I can imgine people who intend to use it learn something from it: redundancy must be part of their strategy like you said.

Everybody who uses anything knows that it's down

So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?

It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you being overly critical, yes