Despite all of the snark here, in my experience Salesforce SRE team is quite competent. The engineering challenges of running a large PaaS - not just with own apps, but with millions of customer-written apps running on it - are quite interesting, and sadly things happen. The status page makes sense to actual customers, it's the particular "pods" where a given service runs.
stmw · · focus · HN ↗
mulmen · · focus · HN ↗
Seemingly meaningful IDs
Search
Region filter
Email update signup
Predictable URLs for instance status so they can be deep linked in runbooks
What appears to be the actual live instance status.
What appears to be the actual live service status in each instance.
An update log with frequent detailed updates.
troyvit · · focus · HN ↗
So yeah you're exactly right, the snark is not deserved if you ask me, and I'm 82% snark.