From 11015f9fdc5b031a2182e79b84dd12385f11f674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maximilian Kaske <56969857+mxkaske@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:58:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] refactor: status-page is politics blog (#1971) * refactor: status-page is politics blog * fix: footer --- .../status-pages-is-politics.mdx | 16 ++-------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) rename apps/web/src/content/pages/{guides => blog}/status-pages-is-politics.mdx (90%) diff --git a/apps/web/src/content/pages/guides/status-pages-is-politics.mdx b/apps/web/src/content/pages/blog/status-pages-is-politics.mdx similarity index 90% rename from apps/web/src/content/pages/guides/status-pages-is-politics.mdx rename to apps/web/src/content/pages/blog/status-pages-is-politics.mdx index e3971c0ea..0e13f4685 100644 --- a/apps/web/src/content/pages/guides/status-pages-is-politics.mdx +++ b/apps/web/src/content/pages/blog/status-pages-is-politics.mdx @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- title: "Status Pages Are Politics" description: "An always-green status page isn't a sign of reliability — it's a sign of opacity. Why the industry rewards dishonesty and what buyers should do about it." -author: "openstatus" -publishedAt: "2026-03-07" +author: "Maximilian Kaske" +publishedAt: "2026-03-12" category: "education" faq: - question: "Why is an always-green status page a red flag?" @@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ faq: answer: "Big organizations know public status pages are political documents. They run private, internal status pages so that teams across silos can coordinate on the actual operational truth — not the sanitized version crafted for public consumption." --- -**TL;DR**: A founder [posted on r/SaaS](https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1rgbhtt/we_lost_a_deal_because_of_our_status_page_history/) about losing a deal because their honest status page showed three minor incidents while a competitor's page showed zero — not because the competitor was more reliable, but because they never reported anything. Status pages aren't reliability data. They're political documents. - ---- - A founder posted on [r/SaaS](https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1rgbhtt/we_lost_a_deal_because_of_our_status_page_history/) about losing a deal because their status page was too honest. Three minor incidents over two months. Quick resolutions, full [post-mortems](/guides/public-postmortem-underrated-marketing), [99.9% uptime](/guides/why-uptime-percentage-is-misleading). Didn't matter. The competitor's page showed zero incidents — not because they were more reliable, but because they never reported anything. The deal went to the green page. This isn't a one-off sales story. It's the entire industry's dirty secret. @@ -58,11 +54,3 @@ Until then, every vendor who publishes honest incident reports is subsidizing co --- The founder who lost that deal made the harder choice. They could have scrubbed their page, played the game, and closed the deal. They didn't. That takes conviction. The least the rest of us can do is stop pretending that a green status page means anything at all. - ---- - -Start free. No credit card required. Set up your first status page in under 5 minutes. - -Try openstatus free - ---- -- 2.54.0