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That Google is choosing to use a PDF (!) as the official incident-reporting media is as confidence-destroying as was the outage.



It's almost as disappointing as the fact that their status page doesn't redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.

(Presumably they wanted to make the status page depend on as few services as possible, to prevent a scenario where an outage also affects the status page itself, but whatever script they are using to publish updates to the page could also perform a check that the HTTPS version of the site is accessible, and if not, remove the redirect).

Could we get the URL of the submission updated please? (Also, it would be nice if the submission form added an "Are you sure?" step when people submit HTTP links).


Wow, surprising PDF partisan downvotes here!




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