Slack is down • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack is down

#21

Post by brazeon » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

rekoros wrote: post #18

We see about 15% of Slack connections failing at https://sameroom.io As an aside, we highly recommend having a contingency plan with another chat system on hot-standby. Here's more: https://sameroom.io/blog/when-team-chat-goes-down-are-you-re...

Would be awesome if you had some sort of status page for all chat services.

Re: Slack is down

#22

Post by rekoros » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:07 PM UTC

brazeon wrote: post #21

rekoros wrote: post #18

We see about 15% of Slack connections failing at https://sameroom.io As an aside, we highly recommend having a contingency plan with another chat system on hot-standby. Here's more: https://sameroom.io/blog/when-team-chat-goes-down-are-you-re...

Would be awesome if you had some sort of status page for all chat services.

We actually do, but it's way too ugly at the moment (raw JSON).

We plan on beautifying soon.

Re: Slack is down

#23

Post by osipovas » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:07 PM UTC

What's the real world analogy to Slack being down? Locking your entire team out of the offices?

Since the start, at our company we've used Slack. We have never experienced an outage like this. Definitely a strange and uncomfortable feeling not having Slack available.

Re: Slack is down

#24

Post by giancarlostoro » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:09 PM UTC

jgillman wrote: post #9

Albright wrote: post #7

Huh, Freenode is still working YEAH I WENT THERE.

And they laugh when you try to explain that decentralized services are good. :/

It's almost like the text editor wars.

Re: Slack is down

#25

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

skepticaluchiha wrote: post #19

This is why IRC is superior.

[deleted]

Re: Slack is down

#26

Post by polysaturate » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

leesalminen wrote: post #2

I can't even get to status.slack.com ... I really hope that isn't on production infrastructure! GET https://slack.com/favicon.ico 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity

IIRC this error message is throw when an AWS ELB is empty(in my experience). I'd imagine it could be thrown if all servers in the ELB are maxed out.

Re: Slack is down

#27

Post by drinchev » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

I also can't connect and status slack seems down.

What I saw was their twitter status :

> We’re having sporadic connectivity issues, and we’re investigating, and working as hard as we can to resolve them. Updates will follow!

[1] : https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/668879517922914304

Re: Slack is down

#28

Post by jzd » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

My company is unaffected because we use MatterMost internally

Re: Slack is down

#29

Post by ossreality » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #25

skepticaluchiha wrote: post #19

This is why IRC is superior.

[deleted]

are you... are you serious?

Re: Slack is down

#30

Post by npizzolato » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 8:11 PM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #11

leesalminen wrote: post #2

I can't even get to status.slack.com ... I really hope that isn't on production infrastructure! GET https://slack.com/favicon.ico 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity

Wow, that is a fail hosting your status page in the same datacenter/environment as production. Honestly, a bit surprised, since Slack has always seemed on top of things.

If you can't get to the status page, it's probably a good indication the service is down :)