What backup methods of communication are distributed teams using when Slack goes down?
Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
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Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
#42Thats the problem without self-hosting your essential stuff.
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#43You know how much of the community uses one messaging system when 15 minutes after it going down, it has over 40 points on the front page! This says a lot about how it's a single point of failure in modern company comms. It's even worrying to think about how some users probably have production-dependent (dare I postulate it) workflows in Slack that get crippled by its outage... ITT: Chat about decentralisation that w…
Luckily most of my active communities are on Discord nowadays. It works much faster and even has a dark theme by default.
But it's not any less centralized, which I think was the complaint, not that it was popular even though this was mentioned.
Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
#44It's times like this I wish there was a solid decentralized standard to pick from, but there's no clear choice between XMPP and Matrix.
There's always IRC ;-)
Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
#45Spare a thought for the chatops crowd who may be blissfully unaware that their own infrastructure is down
I have little pity for the folks who decided that re-implementing a shell in a chat application was a well-conceived notion.
Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
#46Skype still up
Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
#47You know how much of the community uses one messaging system when 15 minutes after it going down, it has over 40 points on the front page! This says a lot about how it's a single point of failure in modern company comms. It's even worrying to think about how some users probably have production-dependent (dare I postulate it) workflows in Slack that get crippled by its outage... ITT: Chat about decentralisation that w…
Luckily most of my active communities are on Discord nowadays. It works much faster and even has a dark theme by default.
> even has a dark theme by default.
I love how having a dark theme is second only to "it works" in terms of how we pick services these days XD
Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
#48Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
#49If only there were a venerable, decentralized instant messaging system we could use, perhaps some kind of internet relay chat system...
You reap what you sow. Depending on Slack for your communications is a bad idea. I can't even remember the last time any of the IRC networks I frequent had a total outage.