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Re: Slack was down

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Post by timdorr »

allana wrote: post #76
nixgeek wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available. Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?

2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low. This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.

They actually just fixed that in 4.0: https://slackhq.com/introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt...

I'm currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.

Re: Slack was down

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Post by conradfr »

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.

My deploy on our staging environment fails because the bot can't post the deployment status update on Slack, so yeah, there's that.

Re: Slack was down

#83

Post by exothermic »

elwell wrote: post #27

" Some workspaces might be experiencing issues with messages sending and loading." (emphasis mine) Is that marketing-speak to lessen the loss of trust?

I think it was actually true- I am signed in to two workspaces -- one paid plan and one free -- and only the latter has been unavailable so far.

Re: Slack was down

#84

Post by vdfs »

allana wrote: post #76
nixgeek wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available. Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?

2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low. This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.

Their new version seem to use less RAM, it's still Electron but with a lot of lazy-loading's

Re: Slack was down

#87

Post by freehunter »

mr__y wrote: post #48
freehunter wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It seems that you could take any old-school internet tech, add some flashy GUI, slap "for enterprise" label and you get a great and popular solution that solves the problem noone ever could solve. Maybe it's time for gopher for enterprise

That's really what it comes down to. Email existed forever, but no one really liked it until Gmail made it flashy. Smartphones existed forever but no one really liked them until Apple/Google made them flashy. Search existed forever but no one really liked it until Google made it flashy.

Hackers like to pretend that presentation doesn't matter, but in the end presentation is the only thing that matters.

Re: Slack was down

#88

Post by notnull »

Is it really that hard to spin up an IRC server for moments like these? I too have had to switch to Skype communications today. I wish people used IRC in the first place so I could write my own bots.

Re: Slack was down

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Post by totaldude87 »

Now we can put slack into the list of Major league tech companies which cannot keep the services up and running 24/7.

Cloudflare Facebook and its group of companies Azure cloud Google Cloud , twitter etc etc

AWS, eyes are you now :)

Re: Slack was down

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Post by rocky1138 »

amelius wrote: post #65
anaphor wrote: post #16

If 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.

If you start using it using the Cloud solution, can you then later easily migrate to the On-Premise version?

Friendly note: on-premises.
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