Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by aliljet » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

Are there solid Slack-style self-hosted alternatives? (The gitlab of the slack world, to be clear.)

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by anonu » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

Previous outages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108912 - 5 months ago (longer discussion)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597461 - 7 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597431 - 8 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811815 - 1 year ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10616743 - 3 years ago

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by nixgeek » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:01 PM UTC

Despite having a vote increment velocity far exceeding other items, a publish time of only 25 minutes ago, and more points, this item just dropped from #5 to #7 on the front page.

How’s that work exactly?

Edit: It’s now droppped to #14 even with comment count also rapidly increasing.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by neuromantik8086 » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:02 PM UTC

cimmanom wrote: post #20

What backup methods of communication are distributed teams using when Slack goes down?

My group uses Roman fire signals [1].

[1] http://www.romanobritain.org/8-military/mil_signalling_syste...

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by maxerickson » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:02 PM UTC

nixgeek wrote: post #53

Despite having a vote increment velocity far exceeding other items, a publish time of only 25 minutes ago, and more points, this item just dropped from #5 to #7 on the front page. How’s that work exactly? Edit: It’s now droppped to #14 even with comment count also rapidly increasing.

Comment count is a factor.

edit: it's a negative factor...

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:03 PM UTC

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Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by r1ch » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:03 PM UTC

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but "We've received word that all workspaces are having troubles connecting to Slack." makes it sound like their internal monitoring didn't catch whatever is causing this. I was personally experiencing issues for about 20-30 minutes before the status update was posted.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by sarreph » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

rkeene2 wrote: post #43

ivm wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> which I think was the complaint

Spot on, not that I know anything about Discord's architecture...

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by gtsteve » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

cimmanom wrote: post #20

What backup methods of communication are distributed teams using when Slack goes down?

All my team also uses Zoom, so we just switch to a group on Zoom when Slack goes down. It's not quite as nice as Slack but it gets the job done.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by gtsteve » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:05 PM UTC

gsich wrote: post #42

Thats the problem without self-hosting your essential stuff.

I don't see it as too much of a problem so long as you're not one of those teams that orchestrates their deployments using a Slack bot. Just make sure you have an agreed backup mechanism, i.e. Google Hangouts, Zoom, etc.