Profile of Downdetector, a resource for determining website and platform outages; Downdetector relies almost exclusively on user reports since 2001 (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
Profile of Downdetector, a resource for determining website and platform outages; Downdetector relies almost exclusively on user reports since 2001  —  Downdetector is a simple, ugly utility, which becomes a weird little life raft for displaced communities when their websites crash.