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Post by cratermoon »

ikiris wrote: post #450
cratermoon wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have definitely worked in places where the times right before and right after a change freeze were the most unstable, so that could be it. However, as others have mentioned, it's pretty early on the west coast of the US. Unless some engineer was up extra early (perhaps at the behest of an anxious project manager) it seems unlikely to be a release. What it could be is some engineer somewhere coming in after the holi…

Most releases are automated with time lockouts.

In what companies?

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Post by joeblau »

itisit wrote: post #222
joeblau wrote: post #95

I have friends at many multi-billion dollar companies who are all just twiddling their thumbs right now.

Me too. Although that's occurring irrespective of Slack's system status.

LOL! Nice, yeah mine is directly related to Slack being down. A lot of text messages right now.

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Post by T-hawk »

majewsky wrote: post #484
raverbashing wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might have been the increased usage due to the pandemic (since it didn't happen from 2019 to 2020) + the sudden inflow of people at the same time.

This would be a good explanation for an outage in March or April 2020, not so much in January 2021.

There may well have been a bigger delta in usage from Sunday Jan 3 to Monday Jan 4 2021, than for any particular pair of days in March-April 2020.

Of course 2020 saw an increase, but it was smeared over a week or a month rather than being a big jump in a single day after everyone's holidays.

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Post by ericbarrett »

arpa wrote: post #478
daniellarusso wrote: post #467

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe my DevOps folks should not be privy to all internal communications? That is one reason we did not go with Mattermost.

If you do not trust your own devops, why are you trusting someone elses devops?

It's just due diligence. Think of what you have access to if you have "god mode" on corporate chat: HR, the CFO's DMs, private messages between other coworkers, and so on. Most won't fall for this temptation, but even those with strong anti-spying morals can be weakened by circumstances. Best to remove the temptation by design.

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Post by kortilla »

btmiller wrote: post #449
easton wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn’t just you, but due to Hacker News’ right-sized[0] infrastructure, you should sign out unless you need to comment. That way you hit the caches instead of getting the server to make you a new page. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911461

That’s the wrong way to look at it. If HN struggles in certain situations then it is not right-sized. You don’t beg of users to walk an unintuitive happy path (i.e. logout when not commenting).

It is “right-sized” if it happens so rarely that it realistically causes no problems.

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Post by jayd16 »

sytse wrote: post #258

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'…

Is this accessible from the web? Can't seem to find it with this Chromebook.

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Post by Havoc »

bww wrote: post #314
sytse wrote: post #258

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'…

Just a reminder that it's probably not a wise idea for anyone to get further in bed with Zoom than they already are. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...

And yet a surprising number of firms with sensitive info continue to use it. Law firms etc

Re: Slack is down

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Post by crubier »

the_duke wrote: post #493

A great opportunity to try out Element, an open source client for the federated and open Matrix network [1]: https://element.io/ (edit: to clarify: not affiliated in any way, just a fan) [1] https://matrix.org/

Lol reckless marketing man aha

(edit: ok I thought you were promoting your own service here, I found it a bit spicy but fun nonetheless aha)

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