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Post by lm2s »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #142

Other data points: * iMessage was taking its sweet time sending a few texts this morning. * I had momentary trouble trying to call a business from my Verizon phone, and someone I know had trouble calling from AT&T. Could just be a coincidence, but I wonder if something larger-scale is happening.

Yes, I'm wondering that also.

Todoist was having issues and iOS app launching from Xcode started taking a lot of time in the middle of the day (which reminds me of the app online check fiasco not so long ago).

Even HN seems to be a bit slower.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by jjice »

013a wrote: post #221
lol768 wrote: post #17

These events seem to be happening almost on a monthly basis now. IRC was never this unreliable and at least with netsplits it was obvious what had happened because you'd see the clients disconnect. IME messages just fail to send with Slack, then you can retry but they're not properly idempotent and you end up sending the messages twice. It's really poor.

Its especially strange when you think about how unoriginal Slack's product domain is, and how comparable, and in some cases small, their userbase is. * iMessage, which likely handles something in the range of 750M-1B monthly actives. * WhatsApp, 2B users [1], though no clarity on "active" users. * Telegram, 400M monthly actives [2] * Discord, 100M monthly actives [3] * Slack, 12M daily actives [4] * Teams, which is c…

I didn't realize that Discord has way more active users than Slack. I'm glad, Discord is a fantastic service in my experience. It's a shame they got shoe horned into a mostly gaming oriented service. I've never had a class or worked somewhere where Discord was a considered solution instead of Slack, but I can't think of anything that Slack does better (in my experience). In general, I think Discord has the best audio and video service that I've used, especially kicking Zoom to the curb.

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Post by sytse »

At GitLab our fallback from Slack is Zoom https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#emergency-c...

I'm posting this because I found a lot of people don't know that Zoom includes a complete chat client that includes channels.

And #HugOps to the engineers at Slack working on this. I appreciate that they posted a periodic update even when there was no news to report: "There are no changes to report as of yet. We're still all hands on deck and continuing to dig in on our side. We'll continue to share updates every 30 minutes until the incident has been downgraded."

Re: Slack is down

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Post by mariusseufzer »

And there we have it: Relying on big companies sucks. It's great as long as it works. Once a system breaks thousands, or even millions, of businesses suffer. (Of course they are also beneficial and a private server can also crash at any time + I don't wanna blame Slack, but we always have to keep this in mind).
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