Dammit! Pingdom is so bad it hurts. Please, somebody, replace them.

The only thing worse than public transit in SF is Pingdom.

Care to elaborate on what is so bad about them (or, what you'd like to see improved)?

They cannot keep me logged in for more than a few minutes.

They charge a ridiculous fee for texts.

You can't give multiple people access to your account, which is really important given we use Pingdom to notify multiple people... If someone wants to change their contact info, I have to do it.

You can't set individual notifications. For example, I want to receive push notifications to my iPhone. David would prefer to receive emails. We can't enable one style for one person. Instead, I have to receive his emails and he has to receive my iPhone chirps.

The iPhone app is amazingly buggy.

So, why do we use it? Someone recommended them to me, and we've already paid for it. I just assumed something that expensive and oft-recommended would be better.

Oh... and why?

And if so, there are many good alternatives, even free ones: AlertFox, Browsermob,...

"PagerDuty will continue to be our baby and we will still enjoy waking you up with sh* t breaks."

I sure hope they mean when shit breaks - I've got other things quite under control thank you very much.

Thanks, I updated it :)

Though that would have also been an interesting pivot ;)

Finally someone is fixing public transport!!!! =)

At least have the decency to spell "Aerial" correctly. Unless you're trying to riff on Google's Helvetica-Comic Sans joke.

I was really hoping it was a steam cleaning attachment for my iPhone to clean the seats on BART.

I freaking hate today.

I'm always the April Fool when I read stuff like this.

happy april fools day everybody!