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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.
If you don’t think the article is appropriate flag and move on.
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.
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Having a single communication medium is a SPOF no matter what name it has
Isn't internet a single communication medium anyway?
However, when major backbones go down it takes it a while to recover.
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Having a single communication medium is a SPOF no matter what name it has
Isn't internet a single communication medium anyway?
Sure, having a single connection is a SPOF, but anyone living in an urban area and anyone with a cellphone (and not using the same cellular carrier for home internet) has more than one connection.
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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.
Ideal would be a live conference call (phone, Skype, Hangouts etc...), but you've got SMS, email, heck, I once solved a pressing issue with my team in a Sharepoint Word document where all our comments were just new paragraphs being edited live (which actually had the handy benefit of being savable without needing to pay extra for the privilege...).
Also, how many IT service desk ticket systems just lit up with people asking them to fix Slack?
If it's any consolation, their status board has actually been reporting errors (hi cloudflare)
You're implying we don't update the status board when there are errors?
Also don't get me wrong, you do a great service. It's just a pet peeve that it seems invariably status pages are a lie.
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.