Can We Stop with the Uptime Percentages?
Jim Nielsen argues that uptime percentages like 99.9% are meaningless to non-infrastructure users. He cites Jason Gorman's point that each 'nine' is as hard to achieve as the last, but the numbers look nearly identical. His fix: replace '98.31% uptime' with '12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime).' The post uses screenshots from GitHub and Claude status pages but doesn't disclose their raw data sources.