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Re: Slack was down

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Post by hombre_fatal »

wglb wrote: post #12
ravedave5 wrote: post #9

Since 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.

They're upvoted because people can't resist making the same tired "see? we are over-reliant on {Slack,Github,Cloudflare,etc}!" comments.

Re: Slack was down

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Post by elwell »

wglb wrote: post #12
ravedave5 wrote: post #9

Since 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.

And yet it is the first place I checked to verify my experience

Re: Slack was down

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Post by testplzignore »

chasedehan wrote: post #7

I really don't like the heavy dependence on Slack that my (and a lot of other) company has. The outage is frustrating.

This is the first Slack outage where it's really affected me. My team has gone all-in on Slack as our communication mechanism. Though now I get to walk around and talk to people in person, so it's not all bad.

Re: Slack was down

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Post by freehunter »

chasedehan wrote: post #7

I really don't like the heavy dependence on Slack that my (and a lot of other) company has. The outage is frustrating.

See, I love it. I work for a mostly-remote company and before Slack we had an IM product but it was a 1:1 chat. Having an always-on chat room for the entire team, knowing other teams use the same product and I can pop into their chat room, spinning up channels for project teams, etc. It's been a huge boost to our company.

And since so many companies have settled on the same solution, when I'm working with a client I can join their Slack workspace too. That cuts down on the numerous quick phone calls and long email threads that we used to have.

Slack vs Teams vs IRC vs anything else, I don't care. It's not about the product. But my company (and most of our clients) didn't have this capability before Slack even though IRC existed for decades, so I'm going to give Slack some credit.

Re: Slack was down

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Post by sleepybrett »

bkq wrote: post #19

I 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...

I've worked in organizations where exchange is down more than it's up. shrug

Re: Slack was down

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Post by elwell »

"Some workspaces might be experiencing issues with messages sending and loading."

(emphasis mine) Is that marketing-speak to lessen the loss of trust?

Re: Slack was down

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Post by drewcoo »

Four8Five wrote: post #13
chasedehan wrote: post #7

I 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.

No, Slack is more like sunlight, which also exhibits a single point of failure for most orgs. While the sun does go down, it somehow seems more reliable.

Re: Slack was down

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Post by runn1ng »

derwiki wrote: post #18
Four8Five wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can apply the same logic to email and the internet in general.

Comparing one proprietary service to federated and open services? I'm not following you

Mailservers are also down very often.

When a company switches from their own e-mail server to hosted Google Mail, their uptime improves.

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