Slack Running Slow / Hanging? • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#31

Post by d33lio » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:12 PM UTC

Unfortunately I basically accept this as the current state of all electron apps?

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#32

Post by oxfordmale » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:13 PM UTC

I am in the UK, and Slack is very slow indeed. I can see message notifications popping up, but I struggle to read them as Slack is hanging. No official outage reported as of yet.

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#33

Post by aidos » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

As ever, a fine demonstration of the disconnect between uptime and status pages. For any fairly large service HN and twitter are a far more reliable source.

Which begs the question, how are these things checked?

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#34

Post by rimliu » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

VMG wrote: post #26

gianpaj wrote: post #14

Down here too. No updates on Twitter either: https://twitter.com/SlackStatus

https://status.slack.com/ also lying

Lies, damn lies, statistics, status pages.

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#35

Post by ApolloFortyNine » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

danielsamuels wrote: post #23

They probably scaled down their infrastructure over the holidays, but now that everyone is back at work they're underprovisioned.

Was my first though too, really looks like they scale down based on the average of the last 2 weeks, but obviously this last 2 weeks would have been extremely low.

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#36

Post by eunos » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:14 PM UTC

Same as me, yet the status page still saying OK.

HackerNews is starting to become the real status page. It even spans multiple services! I remember I learned about Google and YouTube down also from HN.

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#37

Post by Ueland » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

VMG wrote: post #26

gianpaj wrote: post #14

Down here too. No updates on Twitter either: https://twitter.com/SlackStatus

https://status.slack.com/ also lying

I keep thinking about this quote from Dr. Strangelove: "Yes, but the... whole point of the doomsday machine(or in this case, the status page)... is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?"

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#38

Post by drcongo » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

VMG wrote: post #26

gianpaj wrote: post #14

Down here too. No updates on Twitter either: https://twitter.com/SlackStatus

https://status.slack.com/ also lying

:this-is-fine:

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#39

Post by Merad » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

Yep, I'm unable to load some channels and DM's are failing to send.

Re: Slack Running Slow / Hanging?

#40

Post by oxfordmale » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 3:16 PM UTC

edoceo wrote: post #28

For folks who have this outage. How much does this downtime coat you? Or your team? Or, since Slack is down can focus w/o interruption?

I have to rely on Teams now, the horror. God forbid I have to start using the telephone next!

On a more serious note, downtime is not that bad, it probably allows me to focus without interruption for a bit, but will quickly create problems. Being the first day of the year, there is a lot of quarterly planning going on and many colleagues are reaching out for this. There is also the flurry of typical support queries after a break of nearly two weeks, at least for most.