Slack is down for some users • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by chefandy » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

danhab99 wrote: post #13

My whole team doesn't want to work today because we'll have to use MS Teams as a backup. Rip

The MS Teams UX is pretty painful, especially for infrequent, communication-heavy users. Not painful enough to outright prevent work, but clearly more painful than the repercussions of missing a few hours of work.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by rythmshifter03 » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:51 PM UTC

nate wrote: post #15

One fun thing we discovered an outage or two ago: Zoom, which is likely already on your computer too, has a very Slack-like Chat feature. Open up the Zoom app, then click the Chat icon in the top header. You probably missed it this entire time. You can make rooms, DMs, animated gifs, the works :)

Please don't encourage the use of Zoom, they already have enough market share they don't deserve after lying through their teeth to the public on multiple occasions.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by blueyes » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:52 PM UTC

Down for me.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by Cerium » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:52 PM UTC

nate wrote: post #15

One fun thing we discovered an outage or two ago: Zoom, which is likely already on your computer too, has a very Slack-like Chat feature. Open up the Zoom app, then click the Chat icon in the top header. You probably missed it this entire time. You can make rooms, DMs, animated gifs, the works :)

I find zoom chat to be reminiscent of AIM, it does not have the afforances that make slack a good business communication tool.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by chefandy » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:53 PM UTC

CyanLite2 wrote: post #10

mirekrusin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Browser fails with the same message: Something’s gone awry and we’re having trouble loading your workspace. Sorry we can’t be more specific – this is one of those cases where we don’t know what’s gone wrong either. A restart of Slack might help, and you can always contact us. ps. restart of slack in browser? wtf?

The desktop app is Electron, or something similar.

Yeah— it's Electron. They made a big deal about moving away from their native client code bases a few years ago.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by selestify » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:54 PM UTC

Cerium wrote: post #24

nate wrote: post #15

One fun thing we discovered an outage or two ago: Zoom, which is likely already on your computer too, has a very Slack-like Chat feature. Open up the Zoom app, then click the Chat icon in the top header. You probably missed it this entire time. You can make rooms, DMs, animated gifs, the works :)

I find zoom chat to be reminiscent of AIM, it does not have the afforances that make slack a good business communication tool.

What are Slack's affordances?

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by nate » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:54 PM UTC

Cerium wrote: post #24

nate wrote: post #15

One fun thing we discovered an outage or two ago: Zoom, which is likely already on your computer too, has a very Slack-like Chat feature. Open up the Zoom app, then click the Chat icon in the top header. You probably missed it this entire time. You can make rooms, DMs, animated gifs, the works :)

I find zoom chat to be reminiscent of AIM, it does not have the afforances that make slack a good business communication tool.

Definitely. But super helpful in a pinch when we all begin these very large email threads as soon as slack is down. :)

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by seanw444 » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:58 PM UTC

Most of my company have spotty connection. Down for Windows and Linux alike. Interestingly (and several have commented this already), the mobile app seems to be somewhat working.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by legofr » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 3:59 PM UTC

nate wrote: post #15

One fun thing we discovered an outage or two ago: Zoom, which is likely already on your computer too, has a very Slack-like Chat feature. Open up the Zoom app, then click the Chat icon in the top header. You probably missed it this entire time. You can make rooms, DMs, animated gifs, the works :)

That spyware thankfully isn't no mine, and if you're forced to use it (if you for whatever reason can't use Jitsi/Teams) then I strongly encourage you not to install the app and instead use the web version.

Re: Slack is down for some users

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Post by tombert » Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 4:01 PM UTC

Things like this remind me how dependent I am on IM for doing any work, which is weird because it doesn't feel like that should be the case. If you were to measure the raw number of seconds I spend sending IMs, it would be a relatively low percentage of my day, but I always forget how vital that percentage actually is.

As it stands, while I'm not fully blocked from being productive, I am blocked for a lot of work that needs to get done.