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In 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.
In 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…
Meta - 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.
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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.
In 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.
Meta - 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.
Meta - 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.
Meta - 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.
HN is a more reliable status page than most status pages.
If it's any consolation, their status board has actually been reporting errors (hi cloudflare)