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Indeed, if you champion FOSS, why would you recommend a proprietary piece of software as fallback?
Maybe my DevOps folks should not be privy to all internal communications? That is one reason we did not go with Mattermost.
> Customers may have trouble connecting or using Slack I can't stand how marketing speak pervades every sphere of the world. Their entire system is offline (inconvenient certainly, but it happens) and they can't bring themselves to say "Slack is down. We're working on it and will be back ASAP." or something similar. Instead we may have trouble.
I assume this doesn't happen all that often.
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Well until the issue is resolved you can't know how long you've been down for, so you can't actually update the uptime.
Why not? It could be updated second by second automatically if they wanted to. Probably not a priority though.
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> I think the big things that prevent it from being adopted more for professional use is the lack of a threading model They do have a threading model now (if you are talking about replying to a message in a channel and having your reply clearly show what you are responding to). If you are talking about 1-on-1 chats with other people in your same server then yes, that is still lacking IMHO in discord. The whole "you h…
Discord gives every user an identity that is persistent beyond the server; you have a Discord account, not a server account. Slack does the opposite. Enterprises would hate Discord's model, as they prefer to control the entire identity of every user in their systems, such that when they leave the company they can destroy any notion of that identity ever existing.
My business coworkers are freaking out over Slack being down. But all my technical coworkers are nonplussed. It's interesting how those of us with a technical background are not too disturbed by things breaking.
1. (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react. "he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea"
2. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN (of a person) not disconcerted; unperturbed.
Having been in this situation before, with a totally-down-and-not-coming-back-up outage of a payments system, I really feel for their incident response team. I'll take this moment to remind everyone of their human tendency to read meaning into random events. There's no evidence to suggest New Year traffic has caused this, and outages like this can happen in spite of professional and competent preparation. Hugops for…
> I'll take this moment to remind everyone of their human tendency to read meaning into random events. There's no evidence to suggest New Year traffic has caused this, and outages like this can happen in spite of professional and competent preparation. On the one hand, sure we don't specifically know what's going on. On the other hand, it's the first Monday in the new year and they went down shortly after the start o…
While Slack is down, let's remind ourselves that it is not the end of the world. To their ops team, good luck in sorting out the root cause(s), to mitigating their re-occurrence, and to emerging the other side a stronger team. You've got this.
However lot of the monitoring which alerts on slack and other automatic notifications are critical for many teams.