More likely that 'update the Status site' lives a long way down their incident response plan, and they have alarms going off well before that

jordemort 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

yeah I mean a company the size of GitHub certainly can’t be expected to have enough staff to walk and chew gum at the same time

	▲	swiftcoder 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If it's like other BigTechs I have worked at, you need director-level signoff and comms team approval to post an outage notice

it should be automatic tho. Probably isn't so they can at least get the one nine on availability

	▲	simonjgreen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Marketing definitely takes interest in status sites