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> And yet it's either monolithically "healthy" or "unhealthy"; "ready" or "not ready" to run. That is clearly ridiculous, right?

That's my point. If your editor cannot create new articles that's a problem that needs to be resolved.

I probably wouldn't want all my editors smashing the submit button until it worked, leading to additional overload problems. So I open the "circuit breaker" for submission by sending an email to all the editors to please stop submitting while wordpress is broken.

But shutting down the complete website would make the problem much worse because readers wouldn't see anything.

Conclusion: It's neither 100% healthy nor 100% unhealthy. Healthiness cannot be captured by a single boolean.




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