Outage Bingo
Games
bingo card game
SHOW HN2021
224points
55comments
#185of 2,533 in 2021
Top 8%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
6 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 5 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and funny idea
From 3 comments
WHERE THE FUCK IS @PATIO11 ON THIS MATTER!!!?? --- I love this! WEhat would be really awesome would be: ANTI-PATTERN-OUTAGE-BINGO-DDOS-VOTE : "Who should the botnet go after?"…
samstave on HNThis is going to be Internet Gold right here.
samstave on HNIt would be cool if we could use alphanumerical seeds, so we can use our username instead of picking a seed "randomly" (or strategically)
remram on HN
Objections
Some listed outages are not major or are outside the month
From 2 comments
Cute, but Comcast was 5 days ago GCP was 4 days ago Facebook was 13 days ago Robinhood was 7 days ago (and seriously strains "a major cryptocurrency service." it's a retail stock…
KennyBlanken on HNWouldn't Twitch also count for the breach?
mynameismon on HN
Requests
Use usernames as seeds
From 2 comments
It would be cool if we could use alphanumerical seeds, so we can use our username instead of picking a seed "randomly" (or strategically)
remram on HNHave we seriously not already had a major VPN leak? We must have had one by now, right? I vaguely feel like more of these cards should already be blue? But maybe I'm just…
danShumway on HN
Add confetti or BINGO popup
From 1 comment
Aww, no confetti and BINGO! popup or marquee?
ComputerGuru on HN
Build from status page data sources
From 1 comment
I would love to be able to set this up by submitting some group of statuspages as a data source.
bberenberg on HN
Questions
Why was Robinhood counted as a crypto service
From 2 comments
Cute, but Comcast was 5 days ago GCP was 4 days ago Facebook was 13 days ago Robinhood was 7 days ago (and seriously strains "a major cryptocurrency service." it's a retail stock…
KennyBlanken on HNRobinhood probably still earns more than half of its transaction based revenue from crypto, with the rest being options and stocks. I think it actually does qualify as a major…
LamdbaMamba on HN