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jcwayne

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Meta outage 2 years ago

The sparklines on Downdetector's homepage can't be compared to each other. Spikes that look similar can actually have a difference of several orders of magnitude. Only meta's services have truly large spikes.

Thank you for this. While the visualization is useful/interesting, it frustrates me how often similar visuals are used in news stories about space junk. Yes, it's a problem, but using visuals like this without proper explanation misrepresents it terribly.

Datadog S-1 7 years ago

And more difficult to continue to secure funding for companies that have yet to make a profit.

Looks like they've removed the summary statistics in favor of a timeline. Still, it's nice to have it all searchable in one place. It also provides a nice place to check that I have all of the handy features turned on.