I don't understand why people can't just open up the window and yell to each other, like my impression of New York City in the early 1900s, but hipper and slicker.
Call it windowcasting maybe.
A lighthearted joke to hold off the panic while slack gets their servers back up.
Ever hear a New York Echo?
No!
Heeeeeellloooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
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STFU!!
Ditto when AWS or Github go down, as well as everyone who points out why it was obvious to not Slack|Github|AWS. Then the service comes back up and business as usual.
I'm 100% OK with Slack, even through all this, but it seriously needs to be decentralized a bit. I'd like to see pricing on an on-prem version of it.
If you were going to run an on-prem version of Slack why not go with one of the existing tools that does the same thing?
I think because people like using Slack and, for an office communication tool, that's pretty important.
Speaking of, check out https://fleep.io — great product, slightly different model than Slack.
It would be great if it supported linux or at least some client like pidgin