@ellie The times, they are-a-changin'.

And not for the better, sadly.

@ellie your recent post about the short outage, and the significant effort to shift things in response, stood out to me.

I repeat my thanks and appreciation for your dedication.

But I also found myself with a weird feeling. Partly awkwardness because I certainly don't hold you to any kind of reliability standard for the free service, but also something else. I wasn't sure what.

I now realise that was something like nostalgia. It has been a long time since I read a good, open, genuinely human outage PIR. I missed that.

Even some of the best are still washed through corporate PR and muted sympathy for the giant tech co that chose to spend infinite resources elsewhere, only to be saved by heroics of individuals.

It was great to have just the individual who cares, without all the rest. And to share some eye-rolls at upstream providers that don't.