Slack System Status
status.slack.com
status.slack.com
Try down detector. https://downdetector.com/status/slack/
> Was the internet and #AWS recently hacked? Seems like a lot of softwares are not working properly
> That’s so odd. Wi-Fi is out for me too. AWS outage?
> Another problem which definitely doesn’t make sense why server itself gone wild and not responsive to ssh. We will keep investigating this but it can be aws virtualization issues but interesting.
Slack has to do a little more due dilligence than "wifi's down, must be AWS" for their status page.
Even assuming they can't instantly see the problems in a dashboard and need to take time to understand user feedback to see which aspects specifically are affected to update the page in more detail, nothing is stopping them from very quickly putting a "Connectivity issues reported by some users, investigating the extent and cause currently" banner at the top of the page which should be ready to go at a moment's notice anyway.
I was curious and found it:
> September 2021 99.999% uptime
Loonies.
https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/pingd...
Even Amazon can't do it properly.
edit: Yeah it was Atlassian's Statuspage. I am pretty sure I saw them before they were acquired though and never realized
Amazon's famous for this; it's no surprise that Slack does it too.
[ ] Do a Twitter search [ ] Scan through HN [ ] Check with peers [ ] Consult downdetector.com
…in this order. Do not bother with official status pages.
downdetector had it first
twitter had it second
peers were unfortunately unreachable (slack)
HN lagged by a significant margin
You should. If the status page is also down, you know it's going to take a while ;-)
Maybe. I've been shocked by some big companies co-hosting their status pages.
But how to you get that $1b valuation by making yet another client based on open standards? You have to corner the market, and 90% of HN readership want to create or work for a new unicorn, not just improve technology for the sake of it.
Feel free to make a better Slack, that's more usable, more reliable, with more integrations, and run it on IRC. The implementation details mean little to users. Thinking Slack won because it was a closed standard and not that it's better than IRC for the majority of its users is quite the reach.
Your colleague from marketing:
- ... how do I get on it?
- How do I upload files to a channel?
- How do I search for something I wrote a month ago?
But I've also kind of come to hate live chat for internal communication entirely...but email isn't a great alternative either. I'm beginning to think there are just irreducible complexities to human communication that make every platform non-ideal, and the best thing to do is to just set and manage expectations properly as a team and as individuals.
Is there a fundamental issue with IRC that precludes that? Did no one just bother? Is it the specific mentality among its core users that "absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature" that lead to its demise?
You can't make as much money with open protocols.
Worst of all, it's very hard to pitch such a business to people who would fund you, so your business is outcompeted very early on.
What users want and what entrepreneurs and investors want are two, largely uncorrelated, things.
FWIW, I like irssi much better than the slack front end, but as font ends go, slack's is not terrible.
https://stop.lying.cloud/ exists for AWS.
The biggest problem is that I’d have to run some dummy loads on all their services in all regions - even at the lowest tiers I’d probably be looking at a few thousand a month just to keep the service up.
:lolsob:
First I tried to send the message and the Slack app showed a tiny error message in that specific message I've just sent. Then I've pressed the retry button. Immediately the Slack app stopped working... And here I am, browsing on HN.
It immediately reminded me of this joke [2]
[1] https://www.regular-expressions.info/shorthand.html [2] https://twitter.com/brenankeller/status/1068615953989087232
I’ve almost forgotten how to send my coworkers email. It blows my mind how much we are so reliant on a few tools to carry out so much work.
Hahaha Slack and I have very different definitions of uptime, as I'm currently unable to load the app. Company status pages are a joke these days. Workplace politics (stakeholders making an impossible SLA) have ruined yet another great idea.
Some of the best conversations I've seen on HN spawn from these threads. They make us aware that we cannot depend on these service for mission critical things. They help us explore alternative options and allow us to share how we discovered the issue and what we did to weather the storm.
> yes, status pages are slow to change. There's good reason for that
What on earth could be the reason for that? They are the best source to tell us that people are having issues. Why not report it the second it's detected?
> how did people, especially those on "Hacker News" get so depressingly helpless?
Helpless? No - we depend on this news source to report relevant information the second it becomes relevant.
> Uptime for the current quarter: 100%
This is another one of those system status pages that appears to be 100% for SLA reasons. An outage and partial outage are the same in my mind. I understand that money is involved, but the current trend into no visibility into company outages is frustrating to say the least.
"Something’s gone awry and we’re having trouble loading your workspace. Sorry we can’t be more specific - this is one of those cases where we don’t know what’s gone wrong either. A restart of Slack might help, and you can always contact us."
4 minutes ago I posted a screenshot of this being top story on HN so "yes" is a good bet
Now it's nowhere on the front page?
I should've stayed in bed
Same here - UE
Guess the failure is in a different part of their platform…
I now have 5-10 other organizations connected to any one of my Slack tenants, and now we're just stuck in Slack's ecosystem.