HN used to be a great source for quick insight into major outages. Feels like lately - and with Twitter in particular - big outages, like the one happening now, never make it to the front page.
Naughty Ol' Mr Car has fairly comprehensively returned Twitter to the barely-functional state it enjoyed in the late noughties, and no-one bothered posting about Twitter outages then, either. "Kinda broken, might work, who knows" is once more Twitter's default state.
A HN discussion can add value when there's a known reason (DNS?, SSL certificate expired) or work-around, but often the discussion is second guessing or bashing the company.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34980805" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34980805</a> has 50 upvotes, 25 comments now and maybe I'm missing the quick insights (I still upvoted).