all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down)

edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is

HN is my goto status page when these things happen, never failed to provide up-to-date reliable information.

Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow

HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.

TIL. What for?

The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase.