While it is still working for me, I have also seen some issues with some Office 365 services. According to Azure's Twitter account, there is also an outage going on there (although they have yet to update their status page for some reason).
Is Slack Down?
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Re: Is Slack Down?
#32I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
you know you can mute notifications right? If you need to work interrupted for some amount of time just mute... if they need you that badly they can come to your desk
That works until someone gets really mad because you are ignoring them (and you are, actually, ignoring them for a couple hours).
Re: Is Slack Down?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chat is pretty asynchronous for me. I only read or respond to things when my name is mentioned or if there's something particularly relevant or important going on. I just mute notifications for all but the most important channels, and sometimes even mute those while working. That way you only get a notification for @everyone-type mentions, personal mentions, and personal messages, which is not unlike email.
Even doing that, I still think it's very distracting.
At that point, it's only distracting if you work with distracting people. Maybe without IM the barrier to being distracting would be having to go to your desk, but it would still be an occasional issue.
Re: Is Slack Down?
#34I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
From the user's perspective, what's the difference between chat and email except for the look and feel of the client? It's just how you treat it.
Re: Is Slack Down?
#35I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
Seriously, how do we convince people to ditch email? I work with businesses that work with email every day, and it's horrible. It's an archaic technology, with multiple email providers and clients having their own 'standards' (hello Gmail + AMP), has a huge spam / reputation issue, and is just really a pain to work with.
> archaic technology
Just like HTTP.
> having their own 'standards'
What are you trying to send? HTML spam? Text mails work everywhere, the only annoyance you get is top/bottom quoting.
> huge spam / reputation issue
That's usually a problem admins deal with, not the users.
Re: Is Slack Down?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
you know you can mute notifications right? If you need to work interrupted for some amount of time just mute... if they need you that badly they can come to your desk
That works until someone gets really mad because you are ignoring them (and you are, actually, ignoring them for a couple hours).
Then that person needs to learn to respect personal boundaries
Re: Is Slack Down?
#37I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
From the user's perspective, what's the difference between chat and email except for the look and feel of the client? It's just how you treat it.
Expectations.
People don't expect you to reply immediately to email.