
Downdetector is a simple website that tells you whether or not online services like Discord are functioning so that you can determine whether problems accessing them are on their end or on yours. A funny thing happened this week, though: During a big Cloudflare outage on Tuesday, Downdetector itself went down.
What do you do then? Gus Owen, creator of web game TimeGuessr (it's like GeoGuessr, but you're guessing both the location and year a photo was taken), had an idea: Make a Downdetector for Downdetector.