Like human beings, can we all imagine that every single service can have a couple of off days a year.
Slack is down
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#522These 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.
My feeling is this is an AWS issue. Our services hosted in AWS are not working either.
What issues are you seeing on AWS?
The dashboards are all green. (which doesn't mean that much ... I'm aware...)
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#523My business coworkers are freaking out over Slack being down. But all my technical coworkers are nonplussed. It's interesting how those of us with a technical background are not too disturbed by things breaking.
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#524Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Imagine if they did that for the US government, which is easier to compel since they are in US territory.
One nation is currently operating concentration camps and arrests and seizes the property of prominent citizens who criticize the government. Are you sure that's an equivalence you want to draw.
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#525> Customers may have trouble connecting or using Slack I can't stand how marketing speak pervades every sphere of the world. Their entire system is offline (inconvenient certainly, but it happens) and they can't bring themselves to say "Slack is down. We're working on it and will be back ASAP." or something similar. Instead we may have trouble.
The funniest part to me is that their status page still says "Uptime for the current quarter: 100%". These uptime messages are so BS. Heroku reports 6 9s of uptime for this month, even though their own status page shows multiple days with incidents >6 hours
Yeah the amount of airgapped uptime dashboard in SV currently is insane.
Even the major clouds...hn is going wild about it yet the dashboard says all good.
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#526For some reason, today, HN seems exceedingly exceedingly slow (to me) after logging in... Without being logged in, things are as fast as they usually are -- but post log-in, SLOWWWER THAN MOLASSESS ... I tried this several times; why this is, I can only wonder... To quote Bill and Ted... "Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K..."
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#527Potentially an AWS issue?
Slack, notion and AWS all at same time seems unlikely
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#528> Customers may have trouble connecting or using Slack I can't stand how marketing speak pervades every sphere of the world. Their entire system is offline (inconvenient certainly, but it happens) and they can't bring themselves to say "Slack is down. We're working on it and will be back ASAP." or something similar. Instead we may have trouble.
This is probably for legal reasons, i.e. Service Level Agreements. "May" leaves the door open to other interpretations and reporting from other systems.
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#529Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the point is that a "Status Page" should show the accurate, current status of the system. Not a place holder for "we'll fix it later". People look at a status page to know what's happening now .
I wasn't talking about the status page, I was talking about the uptime % tracker. edit: oh, sorry, i did say 'status page' in the first part. But I kinda meant update % tracker like the parent.
Enterprise contracts have SLA's about uptime, so it's definitely relevant.