I propose the hashtag #SlackOff.
Slack was down
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#12Since twitter went down the other week hackernews is now the primary 'is it down?' news site.
I don't think this is the appropriate forum for "is down" postings.
Post-mortems are interesting.
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#13I really don't like the heavy dependence on Slack that my (and a lot of other) company has. The outage is frustrating.
You can apply the same logic to email and the internet in general.
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#14It was funny at first now all this downtime stuff is just ridiculous
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#15This is becoming so often it's embarrassing really.
The way it's handled in the app is also not ideal to say the least - only indication that something is wrong is that the text you are trying to send is greyed out.
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#16If you're a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I've found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.
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#17There are a lot of such issues recently on many major websites/services. Is it just me or are those more frequent than a few years ago?
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#19I honestly don't know how Slack can tout themselves as the email killer [1], when they seem to have rather consistent downtime.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/style/slack-replace-email...
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#20Seems like an open-source self-managed solution would be preferable at this point.
In my experience, in-house hosted products have had much more frequent outages than the SAAS alternatives. Then when there is an outage, it's down for hours instead of minutes.