The company or another trusted organization must make a statement confirming the outage's cause to be sure. It does not have to me a malicious outage, it could be due to an error.
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should have said mcdonalds https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/15/business/mcdonalds-systems-failure/index.html
my own personal down detector. did chat.openai.com just break for anyone else? i don't know but i put mana on it anyway ๐
@strutheo Seems there was also downtime on Super Tuesday for many platforms, most notably YouTube and Discord. Not sure if it qualifies as "significant" (seems like all were down for under 2 hours), but there's a plethora of articles about it: https://ackodrive.com/news/instagram-facebook-threads-youtube-discord-down-for-users-worldwide/
@SaviorofPlant i was literally on all of those sites the whole time, first im hearing of it lol
ill look into this
@strutheo Do outages that occurred before the creation of this market count? Seems OpenAI suffered a DDOS attack in February:
https://www.hackread.com/chatgpt-down-anonymous-sudan-ddos-attacks/
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-down-openai-ai-chatbot-9161908/
Official tracker shows significant downtime Feb 13 - 14: https://status.openai.com/
@Retr0id only to avoid people coming here with a tiny outage on their end, or a blip on the 'is this website out' trackers, which i dont count as serious outages
if there is a news report or widespread consensus or company acknowledgement i'll count it
@strutheo for company acknowledgement I guess it needs to be like, a dedicated blog post or press release, as opposed to e.g. a status dashboard update?
@Retr0id a blog or tweet is best i guess. depends on the dashboard and data it is showing.
https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ is, as of the time of this comment, listing "Partial Outage" for reading and "Major Outage" for editing on Wikipedia.
@Tulip ok i honestly didnt think about this sort of distinction for outage, so i might resolve 50-50 or NA it. i was assuming it would be a loss of access to the wikipedia pages themselves not editors. good catch though thanks for pointing out!
What level of downtime counts? For example, DownDetectors lists some incidents in Feb for chess.com: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/chesscom
@DanMan314 i dont trust these websites sometimes they report small outages for 1-2 people that dont reflect the whole world
i'm going off of company statements/news mainly