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tptacek ◴[] No.36810326[source]
Y'all, this is going to be deeply unsatisfying, but it's what I can report personally:

I have no earthly clue why this thread on our community site is unlisted.

We're looking at the admin UI for it right now, and there's like, a little lock next to do the story, but the "unlist story" option is still there for us to click. The best I can say is: I'm reasonably sure there wasn't some top-down edict to hide this thread (the site is public, anybody can sign up for an account and see the thread).

Say what you want about us, but hiding out from stuff like this isn't one of our flaws. When I find out more about what happened with this thread, I'll let you know (or Kurt will reply here and tell me I'm wrong).

I don't know enough about what happened with this Sydney server to be helpful to people who had instances running on it. When I know more about it, I'll be helpful, but I'm just learning about this stuff right now, after getting back in from a night out.

Almost immediately afterwards

It looks like... all the posts in the app-not-working category are "private"? Like it's some setting on the category itself? "Private" here means you need to have signed up for a Discourse account to see them?

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marcinzm ◴[] No.36812856[source]
Honest advice, probably to Kurt rather than you, is you need better processes, accountability and (probably) communication in your company. The tone of your reply (and other communications from fly.io) is reflective of the lack of those things given the public sentiment regarding fly.io. At 60+ employees and so many issues that tone goes from humanly endearing to indicative of a non-scaling business. Other replies indicate you don't want the things (process, oversight, etc.) that a growing B2B business needs to really succeed which is not a good sign. Sure there's a cost to that corporate-ness and you want to minimize that cost but it's also a necessary evil for the business you're in at the scale you're at.

If something breaks once it's an accident, if it breaks twice it's bad luck but if it breaks down three times it's broken processes. Based on the comment here things break at fly.io a lot more often than three times.

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1. camgunz ◴[] No.36820707[source]
For an opposing viewpoint: I don't want HN to become the place where corporate comms comes to bullshit us. I want engineers who work there to talk to us as peers, which seems like what's happening here. I get candor and humility (and playfulness, sure) from Fly's tone, which I appreciate.

I get stuff like this is frustrating. But I bet Fly staff are pretty frustrated too.