Slack is Down

#1

Post by fjordan » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

Slack is Down
status.slack.com

Re: Slack is Down

#2

Post by mcrittenden » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 4:51 PM UTC

Seems to be up for me again. I wonder if 8 minutes of downtime is enough to warrant a post-mortem blog post.

Re: Slack is Down

#3

Post by muglug » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 4:52 PM UTC

mcrittenden wrote: post #2

Seems to be up for me again. I wonder if 8 minutes of downtime is enough to warrant a post-mortem blog post.

For a product as widely-used as Slack is, it might at least be interesting.

Re: Slack is Down

#4

Post by ptrptr » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 4:53 PM UTC

Slack is down, productivity goes up... after using it for a while I find it does communications within a team well but does almost nothing to increase collaboration, so I guess slack is in area which apps like Discord will disrupt.

Re: Slack is Down

#5

Post by gooseus » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 4:56 PM UTC

mcrittenden wrote: post #2

Seems to be up for me again. I wonder if 8 minutes of downtime is enough to warrant a post-mortem blog post.

Given the increasing dependence on messaging platforms, I think any widespread downtime deserves a public post-mortem.

And that's not to speak to the amazing amount of curiosity and interest that any downtime in a large public system generates. From the PR side, I would think that some kind of post-mortem is almost necessary to prevent that curiosity and interest from turning to distrust and negative perception.

Re: Slack is Down

#6

Post by bernardlunn » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 4:57 PM UTC

I stopped using Slack. It is a productivity drain.

Re: Slack is Down

#7

Post by tapvt » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 5:01 PM UTC

bernardlunn wrote: post #6

I stopped using Slack. It is a productivity drain.

I've been tempted to stop using it, but instead just shut off notifications. I really like being able to pull it up quickly to see when code has been pushed up, pull requests created / merged, or whatever automated CI action is going on for a particular project.

The chatter can burn a lot of time though. You're absolutely right there.

Re: Slack is Down

#8

Post by avenoir » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 5:13 PM UTC

bernardlunn wrote: post #6

I stopped using Slack. It is a productivity drain.

Using MS Teams at the office and I couldn't agree more. It's useful about 30% of the time. The other 70% is sharing giphies and news links.

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#9

Post by RussianCow » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 5:17 PM UTC

ptrptr wrote: post #4

Slack is down, productivity goes up... after using it for a while I find it does communications within a team well but does almost nothing to increase collaboration, so I guess slack is in area which apps like Discord will disrupt.

I don't disagree with you, but in what way do you think Discord will "disrupt" Slack with regards to collaboration?

Re: Slack is Down

#10

Post by fiatjaf » Tue, Mar 07, 2017, 5:20 PM UTC

mcrittenden wrote: post #2

Seems to be up for me again. I wonder if 8 minutes of downtime is enough to warrant a post-mortem blog post.

Of course not.