justkez

Nothing on their official status, but their dashboard is non-operational and numerous reports dripping in of services dropping off

We're about to update a handful of website terms and conditions/privacy policies ahead of the GDPR enforcement deadline.

We have a number of different platforms and I've been trying to determine the best way of maintaining a master document that can easily be updated in multiple places (accepting some manual intervention).

From experience, I find that Finance/Legal are happiest editing on MS Word (slowly moving this to collaboration in Google Docs), but both of these solutions output kludgy/semi-formatted HTML. Every minor change can lead to extensive HTML reformatting.

More recently I'm using a Markdown file but this isn't friendly for the Legal side of the business, and it struggles with nested numbered-bullet points.

Does anyone have any success stories of making this work for all parties?!

I'm researching how startups/solo operators are keeping track of automated/cron/batch jobs on an hourly/daily/weekly basis.

I'd love to know if you use a "email me on success" approach or more of a Dead Man's Switch approach, and how you've implemented it in your company or stack.

We've all got those data munging jobs that are more critical and less reliable than we like to admit!