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Indeed, if you champion FOSS, why would you recommend a proprietary piece of software as fallback?
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#612Seems to be back up for me? Status page has not updated yet though.
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Once again, that is a false equivalence. No one imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay is a US Citizen and neither is Assange. The US prison system is super fucked up but it is not the same as ethnic cleansing. You are comparing apples to concentration camps.
We have thousands of brown people in camps along the border, in brutal conditions, without access to healthcare(unless you count forced sterilizations as healthcare). Do you consider those to be apples as well?
That forced sterilization claim was entirely debunked and was misleading to start with:
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-were-mass-...
https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/09/18/more-migrant-women-say-...
And 70% of those people in those camps are released within 30 days, often times within one week back to their country of origin (or given asylum).
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#614I am genuinely surprised that Slack wasn't ready for people to come back from holiday, to view increased queues of unread messages, to have to manually login vs. having auth tokens or cookies, etc. Either that, or they had a cosmically coincidental outage on a really bad Monday to have it. It's bad enough team comms go over Slack so much now, at least we have email fallback. What scares me is for the teams that use S…
We get our primary alerts through Slack. However we also have SMS and phone call backups through PagerDuty
(from Opsgenie) I would imagine it would be the other way around for most people.
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Holidays are a good time for a company to do a risky deployment, but a bad time for an individual employee to do a risky deployment, assuming one doesn't want to work overtime over the holiday fixing things.
Depends on how well compensated holiday overtime is. There are some employees happy to work overtime if their hourly pay is doubled or tripled. However there also those who wouldnt do that for any price.
Depends how bad it goes wrong. My org is a 24/7 one, but one Christmas back in the 90s (way before my time) some work was done on Christmas eve, I think it was on the phone system, in the days before widespread mobile phones.
It broke, which was a major problem, this meant that senior management were being phoned (ho), and relatively high middle managers were on site to deal with the fall out. Of course most suppliers were also closed so everything was harder to fix.
There's good reasons not to do changes when places are closed, or at least skeletoned, for 2 weeks.
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No I'm pretty sure that's just a sort of 'integration', Mattermost shipped with GitLab? https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/08/18/gitlab-loves-matter... > Like many companies in the last year we've switched to using Slack to improve internal communication. [...] Since Slack doesn't offer an on-premises version, we searched for other options. We found Mattermost to be the leading open source Slack-alternative and sugge…
Ah I see now, having read more of the history. Calling it that seems pretty misleading/odd. (We use GitLab and Mattermost (integration) where I work. I've been 'remote / WFH' for the past 7 years.)
I agree it can be improved and created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/merge_request... to do so.
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#617This site seems to be lagging as well. Or is it just me?
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Indeed, if you champion FOSS, why would you recommend a proprietary piece of software as fallback?
My point was really that it's GitLab's own product. "GitLab Mattermost" [ https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/gitlab-mattermost/ ] I'm amazed they use Slack at all. Let alone as a fallback.
Or use mattermost with Slack as the fallback
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It is easier to cache stuff for users who are not logged in as it is the same for everyone. and everyone is looking up on Hackernews at the moment to see what is wrong with slack, which is probably the cause of the slowness.
While it is true for most applications. HN does not do any customisation of the content. I don't notice I am not logged in until commenting
While it is true for most applications. HN does not do any customisation of the content
I don't think that's true. For example, if you hide a thread while logged in, it remains hidden when you return.