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.
Slack was down
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#32If 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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#33I expect an economic downturn worst than the Depression in the 30's.
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#34Earlier 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
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#35My Android tests on my test device started failing at the same time. Is Slack app's background service flooding my network?
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#36Earlier 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
Likewise for Internet service... if my local AT&T connection went down, it doesn't matter how open and resilient the Internet is, I'm not getting online until it's fixed.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#38If 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.
Disclaimer: I've done a GSoC project with them last year.
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#39If 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.