Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by abdullahdiaa » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:35 PM UTC

Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
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Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by collinvandyck76 » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:38 PM UTC

The issue I'm having is that I can't send messages. Reading them is fine. The dashboards on the walls at SlackHQ must be pretty interesting right now.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by tapoxi » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:40 PM UTC

It's times like this I wish there was a solid decentralized standard to pick from, but there's no clear choice between XMPP and Matrix.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by sdf43543t345 » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:40 PM UTC

IRC had uptime in the scale of decades. Why are our 2018 solutions so fragile?

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by drewg123 » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

The funny thing is that sending normal messages just times out 90% of the time. But /me comments generate an error after timeout:

slackbot9:28 AM /me throws shoe at slack failed with the error "ASSocket: timed out reading 4 bytes from adminserver-3wvr:10443"

We've switched to google hangouts as an ad-hoc workaround..

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by geerlingguy » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

collinvandyck76 wrote: post #2

The issue I'm having is that I can't send messages. Reading them is fine. The dashboards on the walls at SlackHQ must be pretty interesting right now.

Yeah, a strange failure mode; I was even notified of a new message a few minutes ago, but couldn't post a reply.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by microcolonel » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:41 PM UTC

sdf43543t345 wrote: post #4

IRC had uptime in the scale of decades. Why are our 2018 solutions so fragile?

Because they're single-source, single-point-of-failure (in the case of Slack), and very very very complex.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by bonyt » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:42 PM UTC

sdf43543t345 wrote: post #4

IRC had uptime in the scale of decades. Why are our 2018 solutions so fragile?

I mean, most IRC networks at least have netsplits from time to time.

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by Waterluvian » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:42 PM UTC

sdf43543t345 wrote: post #4

IRC had uptime in the scale of decades. Why are our 2018 solutions so fragile?

I recall net splits happening all the time so I'm not sure that ircs uptime was a practical real world "decades".

Re: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces

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Post by orf » Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 1:42 PM UTC

sdf43543t345 wrote: post #4

IRC had uptime in the scale of decades. Why are our 2018 solutions so fragile?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit