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Re: Slack is offline

#71

Post by c0smic » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:25 AM UTC

Just a spooky coincidence it's on Halloween?

Re: Slack is offline

#72

Post by Flammy » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:27 AM UTC

nategri wrote: post #9

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

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Re: Slack is offline

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:28 AM UTC

NightMKoder wrote: post #64

I'm hoping they publish a public post-mortem. Learning from this kind of outage is the best kind experience for engineering - though it's far better when only staging goes down and not prod.

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Re: Slack is offline

#74

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:28 AM UTC

cadr wrote: post #2

When the status page is returning a 500 error... not a good sign.

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Re: Slack is offline

#75

Post by Arathorn » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:29 AM UTC

This is probably preaching to the choir, but hosting your own FOSS chat is nowadays a very viable way to avoid being dependent on a centralised service like Slack. Your options include:

* Riot.im / Matrix.org (decentralised global network; e2e encryption; open protocol)

* Rocket.Chat (Meteor-based; focus on UX and feature)

* MatterMost.com (clone of Slack UI; open core license)

* Zulip.org (all about threads!)

* ...or indeed IRC or XMPP.

(disclaimer; I work on Matrix).

Re: Slack is offline

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Post by auscompgeek » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:31 AM UTC

Flammy wrote: post #72

nategri wrote: post #9

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

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> Anyone who doesn't know, Slack actually runs off the IRC protocol underneath the hood.

[citation needed]

Re: Slack is offline

#77

Post by ytjohn » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:39 AM UTC

kiloreux wrote: post #11

I just realized that being a remote team. I can't join any of my teammates. Neither see live changes to the infrastructure and the repositories. The things we take for granted.

I'd like to message members of my team about this issue, but slack is down...

Re: Slack is offline

#78

Post by d4l3k » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:39 AM UTC

auscompgeek wrote: post #76

Flammy wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> Anyone who doesn't know, Slack actually runs off the IRC protocol underneath the hood. [citation needed]

Pretty sure they provide an IRC interface, but almost certainly don't use IRC internally. There's almost no way they could support any of their fancier features using IRC. Reactions etc would be horrible to implement.

Re: Slack is offline

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Post by kamilszybalski » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:41 AM UTC

Slack is currently down and I've realized, for better or worse, what Slack has really done.. It's created an expectation for immediacy. I thought about sending my question to someone via email but then just thought, "I'll wait for Slack to be back up, it'll be faster anyhow".

Re: Slack is offline

#80

Post by bojo » Wed, Nov 01, 2017, 12:43 AM UTC

badminton1 wrote: post #70

Slack has a nice market share, but also many competitors, many of them 100% ripoffs with the same features (to name a few, Attlassian HipChat and MS Teams... not to mention open source products). Slack has been experiencing service degradation often lately, so I would not be surprised if people start switching. In our team we already started looking for an alternative.

HipChat came out long before Slack.