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Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by bgribble »

switch007 wrote: post #126
bgribble wrote: post #34

Maybe unrelated, but my AWS-hosted websockets-using app had an outage starting at the same time. Also a third-party API provider we use for handling inbound phone calls. So this smells like a wider outage than just Slack.

That's interesting. More speculation: they haven't given any detail in 2 hours, perhaps if it's an upstream/3rd-party problem, they haven't been given any info.

I know it's not exactly scientific, but the front page of https://downdetector.com shows a number of services that have problem spikes starting anywhere from 3am US/Eastern to 9am US/Eastern and continuing through now (11:24 US/Eastern): Google Home, Fortnite, Exede, Level 3, New York Times, AWS. Maybe totally unrelated to each other, who knows.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by _wmd »

nixgeek wrote: post #53

Despite having a vote increment velocity far exceeding other items, a publish time of only 25 minutes ago, and more points, this item just dropped from #5 to #7 on the front page. How’s that work exactly? Edit: It’s now droppped to #14 even with comment count also rapidly increasing.

300 comments in one hour will definitely kill it. HN penalizes controversy, which it uses comment count as a proxy for. It works well most of the time

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by chatmasta »

This is a weird outage...

- I am in UK

- I had similar problems last night (around 2AM GMT) but status.slack.com was all green, and my colleagues in the US seemed to be using it okay

- Currently it's completely down on desktop for me (waiting to reconnect...)

- Connecting through a US VPN does not resolve the problem on Desktop, even though my US colleagues are using it on Desktop successfully right now

- Mobile works for receiving and sending messages, but there is a delay

Anyone else seeing symptoms like this?

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by dawnerd »

bgribble wrote: post #141
switch007 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting. More speculation: they haven't given any detail in 2 hours, perhaps if it's an upstream/3rd-party problem, they haven't been given any info.

I know it's not exactly scientific, but the front page of https://downdetector.com shows a number of services that have problem spikes starting anywhere from 3am US/Eastern to 9am US/Eastern and continuing through now (11:24 US/Eastern): Google Home, Fortnite, Exede, Level 3, New York Times, AWS. Maybe totally unrelated to each other, who knows.

That certainly does look suspicious there - especially level3.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by briandear »

oneneptune wrote: post #67
aliljet wrote: post #51

Are there solid Slack-style self-hosted alternatives? (The gitlab of the slack world, to be clear.)

Atlassian, the folks behind bitbucket, jira, and (now) trello have a self hosted product: https://www.atlassian.com/software/hipchat They also have a Slack alternative, called Stride.

And HipChat is horrible. Doesn’t even sync which multiple devices and their mobile app doesn’t support the iPhone X screen size which is a trivial update to make considering HipChat is used by some pretty massive customers. Code highlighting is still, (after years,) pretty bad.
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