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Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by kannonboy »

timv wrote: post #86
darkstar999 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In their official announcement today, the StatusPage co-founders also note that when the team explored the acquisition, “we were aligned on three important things: our complementary cultures, our desire to offer StatusPage as a standalone product, and our shared vision of the future of software.” Standalone product. I think it will be safe.

Bitbucket has remained a standalone product, but I don't think many of its original mercurial userbase feel like it's been "safe". When Atlassian bought bitbucket it was the place to host mercurial repositories. Now it's a git hosting service that hasn't gotten around to turning off mercurial support yet.

Hi timv, Bitbucket engineer here. I'm not on the PM team, but to my knowledge we have no plans to discontinue Hg support. The Bitbucket repo population is roughly 90% Git and 10% Mercurial, but due to our scale that is still a freaking huge number of Hg repos. We also hired one of the core Mercurial contributors last year to ensure we continue to improve our offering for both DVCSs. Of course I can't personally guarantee anything, but if I were an Hg user, I'd feel pretty confident that Bitbucket's support isn't going anywhere in the foreseeable future.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by retrack »

cyberferret wrote: post #54
rmdoss wrote: post #37

As a happy StatusPage user, I am worried about this acquisition. Been more and more frustrated with Atlassian and recently we had to move away from HipChat due to multiple issues (constant downtimes). What are the good alternatives to StatusPage?

We use Cachet[1], an open source alternative. We checked out many status page services out there, but found it hard to understand how some of them (web apps with a handful of pages) were more expensive than our accounting system or project management services we subscribe to?!? [1] - https://cachethq.io/

Some are not that expensive, Runstatus[1] is 5$ a year with first year free.

[1] - https://runstatus.com

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by jon-wood »

fletchowns wrote: post #67
dantiberian wrote: post #20

This acquisition doesn't fill me with confidence for the future. StatusPage was a clean, simple, and intuitive service. Atlasssian's software is the opposite of clean, simple, and intuitive.

I use JIRA, Confluence, and BitBucket daily and I'm a big fan of all three. Yeah, there's some aspects of their products I don't like, but overall I'm very happy with Atlassian offerings.

So do I, and they're all tools that get the job done, but without any finesse or real care.

Bitbucket is inferior in every way go Github, with a UI that screams feature box ticking. Confluence is a place for documentation to go and die a slow death, and I'm still convinced Jira was entirely designed to keep project managers and mouse manufacturers in business - you can't do anything without fifteen clicks around the screen.

Give me Github, a repository full of markdown files, and Trello any day of the week.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by a_imho »

djsumdog wrote: post #11

I remember when I was doing a talk in Melbourne, another developer told me what he didn't like about Atlassian was that they essentially only had one product (was it Jira? or Confluence? can't remember) and almost everything else in their offering set; they bought from other people and re-engineered to fit into their product line. Having administered, Jira, Confluence and Bamboo servers (all with slightly different i…

Have you tried xwiki? Last time we were on a really tight budget, we ended up with it and was very nice. Confluence could only handle our use case with 2 separate paid plugins installed!

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by clappski »

r0m4n0 wrote: post #59
dantiberian wrote: post #20

This acquisition doesn't fill me with confidence for the future. StatusPage was a clean, simple, and intuitive service. Atlasssian's software is the opposite of clean, simple, and intuitive.

Having used many different bug tracking, help desk, and ticketing softwares… Atlassian does a dam good job. Totally customizable screens, fields, and workflows with a modern UI. A decent webservice API I’ve integrated a few external tools into without much difficulty. I’ve also written a few gadgets and plugins and received a decent amount of attention through their plugin marketplace. Maybe the admin that setup your…

We use ServiceNow at work, and it's absolutely horrible. Introduces so much red tape even to do simple things like become an administrator on a virtual machine requested against your account .

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by jbrooksuk »

cyberferret wrote: post #54
rmdoss wrote: post #37

As a happy StatusPage user, I am worried about this acquisition. Been more and more frustrated with Atlassian and recently we had to move away from HipChat due to multiple issues (constant downtimes). What are the good alternatives to StatusPage?

We use Cachet[1], an open source alternative. We checked out many status page services out there, but found it hard to understand how some of them (web apps with a handful of pages) were more expensive than our accounting system or project management services we subscribe to?!? [1] - https://cachethq.io/

Hey, Lead Developer of Cachet here! Thanks for sharing a link to our project!

@Everyone, if there is anything I can do to help, let me know! You can email us james@alt-three.com to discuss more.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by glogla »

voltagex_ wrote: post #103
ymerej wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For you, there is Github issues. Have fun, cowboy.

Having used HP Quality Centre, JIRA and Team Foundation, I think your snark is unwarranted and there is a middle ground to be found between very basic issue tracking and something completely overbearing like QC.

It's been years and HPQC still gives me nightmares.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by thinkMOAR »

'Outside Your Infrastructure, Always Up'

AWS has outages too, also statuspage.io own site reports, Hosted Pages Uptime 99.969%

99.969 != always.

Pricing also isn't too shabby, Enterprise starts at $1499/mo. Billed annually.

For small 18.000$ a year, one should be able to setup your own external monitoring, with email, Facebook, twitter and what not for hooks to update your users of the service status where the sky is the limit, not the limits statuspage.io sets for your account.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by pc86 »

thinkMOAR wrote: post #119

'Outside Your Infrastructure, Always Up' AWS has outages too, also statuspage.io own site reports, Hosted Pages Uptime 99.969% 99.969 != always. Pricing also isn't too shabby, Enterprise starts at $1499/mo. Billed annually. For small 18.000$ a year, one should be able to setup your own external monitoring, with email, Facebook, twitter and what not for hooks to update your users of the service status where the sky is…

Enterprise pricing is not about being cheaper than it would be for you to do it yourself. It's about you simply not having to do it yourself. You might be an organization that only employs 5 developers. It's much easier to pay a small fraction of what you pay one of them than it is to pull 1-3 of them off of what they're working on and have them build you a buggy implementation of the same thing that won't be ready for many months.
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