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Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

#31

Whichever Salesforce employee has their bonus tied to this being declared an incident and not an outage; fuck you. This has affected critical, operational processes which YOUR sales and marketing teams use in Case Studies[0][1][2] and documentation[3][4]. [0] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/react-veterans... [1] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/veterans-affai... [2] https://slack.com/intl/e…

If your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.

Re: Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

#32

Whichever Salesforce employee has their bonus tied to this being declared an incident and not an outage; fuck you. This has affected critical, operational processes which YOUR sales and marketing teams use in Case Studies[0][1][2] and documentation[3][4]. [0] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/react-veterans... [1] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/veterans-affai... [2] https://slack.com/intl/e…

I would not recommend basing your core business capabilities around an external chat app with no redundancy. Outages happen and always will.
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