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#343At GitLab our fallback from Slack is Zoom https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#emergency-c... I'm posting this because I found a lot of people don't know that Zoom includes a complete chat client that includes channels. And #HugOps to the engineers at Slack working on this. I appreciate that they posted a periodic update even when there was no news to report: "There are no changes to report as of yet. We'…
Just a reminder that it's probably not a wise idea for anyone to get further in bed with Zoom than they already are. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...
What an overwrought headline, the employee in question has already been fired.
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#344This is an excellent reminder of the danger of being locked into closed systems. I wonder how many companies (like mine) have literally ground to a halt because of this? Do other companies have a risk-documented backup plan B for times like this? Presumably the default is for everyone to resort to email? More worryingly is the number of ChatOps processes and alerting/observability systems that are in place around Sla…
> This is an excellent reminder of the danger of being locked into closed systems. Do you honestly think a self managed solution or open source solution would be more reliable for most companies?
When application engineers say stuff like this, they're also implying that there's a giant infra/ops team who will be wiling and able to do all the work for them. Nobody actually wants to be responsible for this stuff.
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#345This site seems to be lagging as well. Or is it just me?
In the other threads, there's been some theorizing that some central infrastructure is down or struggling. Perhaps AWS or the like.
It could just be an effect of people switching to "alternatives" from slack, effectively DDOSing those services. Notion just went down as well
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#346Notion is sluggish as well. That combined with the reports of HN potentially being slow, is there some larger network issue at play affecting a region of servers, potentially?
My feeling is some common infrastructure is failing or flailing, like some part of AWS, or some backbone provider. Too many flaky things going on at the same time to be independent failures.
Maybe another internet routing issue, where a bunch of traffic is going through some guys router in Albania. Or even someone is actively interfering with a root server.
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#348Time to talk to my coworkers in person... dry heaves /s
I'm fairly certain that dry heaves are not a COVID-19 symptom, at least.
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#349This is definitely going to catalyze a nascent move over to Discord for my team. (~80 person consulting agency, distributed)
Which would be unfortunate if based only on evidence of Slack being down today, given how many other sites are down as well. (Discord is up, though!)
it's not based on only that. Slack costs a lot of money and moving off of it is something that has continually come up over the last year or two. We even had a Rocketchat server up and running for awhile.
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#350I 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…
My coworker's theory was someone was waiting for the holiday's end to deploy something risky. And I'm in that boat of depending on Slack for alerting... in fact my team was also waiting over the holidays to deploy more robust non-Slack-based alerting (in our defense the product is only a few months old and only now starting to scale to any real volume).
Yeah, I think it's this rather than load. Slack should be able to handle load fine (probably), but since this is the first weekday post-holidays I imagine some deployment broke something.