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Status pages
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Status pages, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Status pages are not updated early, so users can't tell whether an outage is real2026-09-17
- User could not figure out how to set up the public status page2020-04-01
- Interface is hard to parse, with glaring bright colors on black and cluttered screen2013-04-10
- Extra confirm step is unnecessary; unclear whether clicking a widget already added it2010-07-19
- Text is really hard to read when configuring a widget2010-07-19