Ok, have signed MetaFilter.com with UptimeRobot to monitor the site. It's the free version, checks the site every five minutes and if it's down, will send an email to the mod email, which all the mods can see.
Told the rest of the staff about this on Slack and posted the account login info to the mod slack, so that any staff member will be able to login to UptimeRobot. Have pinned that and the BlueSky account info in a channel on the mod Slack for easy reference.
This isn't a perfect solution, just a halfway decent option as staff discusses ways to be alerted when the site is down, so that the community can be notified that we're aware and working on it.
mediareport: "The thingabob will automatically monitor the site and send Slack notifications to the mods and update Bluesky
Apparently that solution didn't work this time?"
Kirkaracha was referring to the new site with that comment, have confirmed that with him earlier this evening
Told the rest of the staff about this on Slack and posted the account login info to the mod slack, so that any staff member will be able to login to UptimeRobot. Have pinned that and the BlueSky account info in a channel on the mod Slack for easy reference.
This isn't a perfect solution, just a halfway decent option as staff discusses ways to be alerted when the site is down, so that the community can be notified that we're aware and working on it.
mediareport: "The thingabob will automatically monitor the site and send Slack notifications to the mods and update Bluesky
Apparently that solution didn't work this time?"
Kirkaracha was referring to the new site with that comment, have confirmed that with him earlier this evening