Is it just me, or do those outages seem far more common lately? Or maybe this is happening just as often as it used to, but now we're growing more dependent on cloud-based software so this is reported more prominently?
Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
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Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#12No outage for me, but I'm seeing some messages appearing twice. Is that related?
My org is having a few people see that, or messages getting silently dropped, or failing to edit an existing message.
Okay, yeah. I'm seeing some of these issues now.
It's odd because the message said it failed to edit, but my client still shows the message as edited.
Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#13In other news: an unexplained productivity spike has been recorded today across the tech industry.
Or not. I'm remote and I cannot ask questions nor coordinate action to solve live production problems due to this outage. Slack is becoming a SPOF for many organizations, especially distributed.
Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#14In other news: an unexplained productivity spike has been recorded today across the tech industry.
According to some prospective studies, some people would (and please stay with me on that) actually use slack to communicate about work-related matters with co-workers.
More study are needed to clarify if this work-related communication might actually be required for work to get done. (Cal Newport is definitely preparing a book on that any time soon.)
Unfortunately, the researchers are too busy maintaining their IRC server to actual do it - but at least they're using IRC.
Whereas, my productivity definitely goes up when HN is down ;)
Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#15In other news: an unexplained productivity spike has been recorded today across the tech industry.
Or not. I'm remote and I cannot ask questions nor coordinate action to solve live production problems due to this outage. Slack is becoming a SPOF for many organizations, especially distributed.
For anyone else curious, SPOF means single point of failure in this context.
Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#16Meta - can we not post outages to HN?
I understand that post mortem's are interesting learning lessons, but if you're curious whether S3 or whatever is down or not right at this moment, then use the subsequent status pages of those services.
Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#17In other news: an unexplained productivity spike has been recorded today across the tech industry.
Or not. I'm remote and I cannot ask questions nor coordinate action to solve live production problems due to this outage. Slack is becoming a SPOF for many organizations, especially distributed.
Same here. I'm on support duty and have my own outage to attend to, and that's really really hard when you cannot communicate with your experts.
Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#18Is it just me, or do those outages seem far more common lately? Or maybe this is happening just as often as it used to, but now we're growing more dependent on cloud-based software so this is reported more prominently?
More dependant.
Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or not. I'm remote and I cannot ask questions nor coordinate action to solve live production problems due to this outage. Slack is becoming a SPOF for many organizations, especially distributed.
For anyone else curious, SPOF means single point of failure in this context.
I was thinking "single point of focus."
Re: Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
#20In other news: an unexplained productivity spike has been recorded today across the tech industry.
According to some prospective studies, some people would (and please stay with me on that) actually use slack to communicate about work-related matters with co-workers . More study are needed to clarify if this work-related communication might actually be required for work to get done. (Cal Newport is definitely preparing a book on that any time soon.) Unfortunately, the researchers are too busy maintaining their IRC…
I’ve hosted multiple IRC servers over the years and can’t remember ever having to do “maintaining” after the initial setup.