Slack is offline • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack is offline

#41

Post by chris_wot » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:44 PM UTC

Causing chaos at my workplace. We have Slack integrated into our incident management solution... very, very unfortunate.

Re: Slack is offline

#42

Post by LambdaComplex » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:45 PM UTC

mpd wrote: post #40

nategri wrote: post #9

Yo, people who like to complain that Slack just re-implements IRC... This Is Your Moment

At least with IRC I could connect to another server.

Or host your own

Re: Slack is offline

#43

Post by chris_wot » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:45 PM UTC

grzm wrote: post #35

internalfx wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like somebody wants to keep this quiet. 65 points in 12 minutes is good enough to be #1.

High comment rates can also trigger the "overheated discussion detector", which will downweight a submission.

Perhaps the HN mods should do something about that then.

Re: Slack is offline

#44

Post by jnaulty » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:48 PM UTC

  We are aware of connectivity issues and are actively lnvestigating.
  3:58 PM PDT・See in your timezone

They spelled investigating with a lower-case 'l' :\ Does that bug anyone other than me?

Re: Slack is offline

#45

Post by alexasmyths » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:49 PM UTC

I worked for BlackBerry when outages started to become a thing.

When your business motto is 'always on' - it's really, really bad to be 'off' - it's a deep transgression of the brand promise.

BB was structured poorly for this - they didn't grasp the concept of multiple nodes of redundancy very well. (Easy in hindsight).

But - we should all be impressed at how highly available Google, FB and some other brands are. That's impressive.

Re: Slack is offline

#46

Post by Waterluvian » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:49 PM UTC

jnaulty wrote: post #44

We are aware of connectivity issues and are actively lnvestigating. 3:58 PM PDT・See in your timezone They spelled investigating with a lower-case 'l' :\ Does that bug anyone other than me?

It doesn't bug me. But I really want to understand how that happens.

Re: Slack is offline

#47

Post by grzm » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:51 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #43

grzm wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

High comment rates can also trigger the "overheated discussion detector", which will downweight a submission.

Perhaps the HN mods should do something about that then.

If you see something like this and you think it's in error, you can let them know and they'll likely be able to respond more quickly. There's a contact link in the footer.

Re: Slack is offline

#48

Post by tooltalk » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:52 PM UTC

cheerioty wrote: post #20

That's why there's StatusPage.io :)

I think you meant to say statuspage.io, not statuspage.com

Re: Slack is offline

#49

Post by bramen » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:53 PM UTC

jnaulty wrote: post #44

We are aware of connectivity issues and are actively lnvestigating. 3:58 PM PDT・See in your timezone They spelled investigating with a lower-case 'l' :\ Does that bug anyone other than me?

Just a simple typo. The keys are pretty close together if your finger slips, and I imagine they have enough problems distracting them from proper spellchecking at the moment. :-)

Re: Slack is offline

#50

Post by orthoganol » Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 11:53 PM UTC

How is there nothing on the front page of HN, slack being out for almost an hour now?

Given timeframe and upvotes, how is this not the top of HN?