Well, there goes the credibility one team has in arguing that Slack makes a great knowledge repository.
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#162I find it amazing that we can be about an hour and a half into a service being completely unusable(ie. Slack telling me it 'cannot connect'), yet it's still marked as an 'incident' instead of an 'outage' in their own status page
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#163From the status page (https://status.slack.com/2021-01/9ecc1bc75347b6d1), updated just now:
> We're continuing to investigate connection issues for customers, and have upgraded the incident on our side to reflect an outage in service. All hands are on deck on our end to further investigate. We'll be back in a half hour to keep you posted. > Jan 4, 5:20 PM GMT+1
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#164status page says apps / API are fine yet am trying to work on a slack app but can't cause of these error, a bit annoying edit: it is now showing as a total outage on the status page
It seems weird to say there are issues with connections but everything else is working fine. Like is the API technically fine on their system metrics but no one can connect to use it so it stays as green? Doesn't really help much in practice it seems if connections are having issues and everything is unusable in practice to keep them as green.
Would be similar if auth was down. You can connect to us, you just can't authenticate so can't actually do anything.
Edit: Looks like they updated the status to properly show an across the board outage
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#166My biggest frustration with these outages is they're hard outages across all of Slack. There's no reasonable work arounds or fallback features.
A plaintext web interface would keep my team moving along while they resolve their issues.
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#167A good time to host your own slack-like chat with mattermost instead
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#168It's funny that this isn't considered an "Outage" by their status page's standards.
Seems that it is now. It was originally just Messaging and Connections that had an "incident", so I wonder if something else happened or they manually changed the status to at least own that all their services went FUBAR.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Why is migration so hard? Why would anyone make it easy
I think there should be a new computer science law (if this one doesn't exist already): Things that are easy to migrate from get replaced by things that are hard to migrate from, eventually. IRC is incredibly easy to migrate from.
IRC is easy to migrate from since there is nothing to migrate other then chat history. IRC is also missing so many features that slack provides out the box. And a law like that would not work since you would need to write complicated transformation scripts to transform between services. Also not all services are a 1-1 mapping. I like IRC but it has its limitations. That is why slack succeeded where IRC did not.
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#170Looks like Slack just updated their status page to show a complete outage, not just an incident for "Messaging" and "Connections."