Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by JeanFred » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

aliljet wrote: post #51

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

Gitlab itself ships with Mattermost " rel="nofollow">https://mattermost.com/> :)

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by nullify88 » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

aliljet wrote: post #51

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

We're giving Mattermost a good try now!

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by nixgeek » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:07 PM UTC

aliljet wrote: post #51

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

Mattermost is actually integrated with GitLab - so yes - options do exist.

There’s stuff like Rocket Chat and I think Dropbox released one as OSS a while back resultant from an acquihire, but the name escapes me now.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:07 PM UTC

sarreph wrote: post #33

You know how much of the community uses one messaging system when 15 minutes after it going down, it has over 40 points on the front page! This says a lot about how it's a single point of failure in modern company comms. It's even worrying to think about how some users probably have production-dependent (dare I postulate it) workflows in Slack that get crippled by its outage... ITT: Chat about decentralisation that w…

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Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by coldcode » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:07 PM UTC

This is why I like working on iOS apps, if all hell breaks lose I can't do anything. When something like Slack goes belly up, imagine those poor folks having to respond.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by popularextasy » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:07 PM UTC

cimmanom wrote: post #20

What backup methods of communication are distributed teams using when Slack goes down?

RocketChat - Self-hosted, not backup, primary. Outage like this validates that decision.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by oneneptune » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

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.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by borplk » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

gsich wrote: post #42

Thats the problem without self-hosting your essential stuff.

self-hosting doesn't imply automatic and better uptime than the hosted version.

most people are much better off letting dedicated teams of tens of people take care of the hosted version for them.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by majewsky » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

nixgeek wrote: post #31

majewsky wrote: post #24

Even Slack Enterprise is affected. So much about "this runs on your own infrastructure".

Slack Enterprise has never run on your own infrastructure.

It doesn't? I thought that was its only reason to exist.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by pwenzel » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

shawn wrote: post #29

setquk wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can confirm. No wait, the first thing I did was check HN and now am reading this and oh there's another interesting thing.

HN's noprocrast setting cures that.

It works all too well. This will be my last comment of the day before noprocrast kicks me off HN.