Gadget Trade Status

Current service status

This page is the public home for Gadget Trade service-status information. Operational updates can cover the marketplace, authentication, payments, messaging, notifications, developer API and other major platform services.

How status updates are published

1. 1An administrator opens Admin → Public Status.
2. 2Select the overall state and set the status for each affected service.
3. 3Write a concise user-facing summary that explains the impact without exposing private information.
4. 4Add timeline updates for investigation, mitigation, maintenance or recovery.
5. 5Save a draft while preparing the incident update, then use Publish status when the public page should change.
6. 6Update the published status as the incident progresses and publish again when the service is restored.

Status language

• Operational — the service is operating normally.
• Degraded performance — the service is available but some users may experience delays or failures.
• Partial outage — an important part of the service is unavailable.
• Major outage — the service is broadly unavailable.
• Maintenance — planned work may temporarily affect availability.

Third-party services

Some Gadget Trade features depend on external providers such as payment, messaging, email, storage or authentication services. When an external provider affects a Gadget Trade feature, the status update should identify the affected feature and, where useful, link to the provider’s public status information.