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Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble?

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I was having some problems with Slack that you can send message but you do not get a confirmation (so the text message gets greyed out) but it is actually sent. This is confusing because you can't delete the pending message and can't delete the duplicated messages after restarting the Slack client either.

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Yes. It's really a shame how useless their status page usually is - it's still all green at the moment.

That has become industry standard. Status pages are never "live".

Sadly, it's true for many products, but thankfully not all. How I interpret lagging status pages (I mean, this has been going on for 20+ minutes now) is that they are not capable of detecting outages, which really erodes my trust, especially in such a crucial tool. (I know that they do detect it in reality, I'm just stubborn :P)

I'm OK if e.g. Spotify is down, and it's unclear what to expect, but from a crucial business communication tool, no updates for 30 minutes is unacceptable :/

Reddit status page used to include graphs for errors and post/comment backlogs. Even if the overall status was not updated from green, it was clear that we're at the beginning of an incident based on spikes. It was too easy and useful, so of course they were removed.

They removed all that? It was all visible until this year. Dammit they really are circling the toilet trying to make money...

They don't have to worry about SLAs if they just never acknowledge that they had any downtime!

You have commented this at least 22 minutes after they have reported the outage.

Expecting them to update status page before someone notices and posts on HN might be too high of a bar.

I'm not sure you understand what the status page is used for.

If it's done properly, it shouldn't need to be manually updated.

I'm sure there's failure modes that won't get caught automatically and need manual updates.

I'd agree that 'properly' doing a status page would include something out of band attempting to use the service and checking if it worked. No idea if anyone does that.

Just encountered an issue deleting a message. Error.

"Message deletion failed"

"Sorry, something went wrong with deleting your message."

Edit: Seems like messages are just straight up not sending and receiving.

Status page is now acknowledging the issue:

Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

https://status.slack.com/2023-07/08e3781ccbef33d5

Seems like there's some issues. https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

No feedback yet on the Slack system status dashboard https://status.slack.com/

Status pages are kinda pointless 2023 thanks corporate bureaucracy issue has to be massive if they acknowledge it.

It was just updated:

> Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

Seems to have recovered for me now.

Latest status update:

Slack experiencing an outage across the app. Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages, using workflows and various other actions in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

If we have high availability connectivity for servers, I feel like corporations should also consider applying the same principles for inter-personal communication. A distributed and encrypted protocol with a similar feature set to Slack would come handy. Any suggestions?

Down in Japan too https://newsdigest.jp/news/2d8adce9-5b4c-46aa-8806-375871703...

+1 time to knock off early.

My workspace in Europe is also in some kind of (unannounced) Read-Only mode.

Issue appears to be specific to EU.

Seeing it in Asia

US is asleep. :D

finally acknowleged on their status page: https://status.slack.com/2023-07/08e3781ccbef33d5

Yes it died for us about twenty minutes ago, UK / EU located

Down for us (London)

Yes, though they haven't acknowledged anything.

Can Confirm Issues in Germany.

Welp my day is over お疲れさまでした。

Mine just got 1,000,000% more productive.

なぜはまだ仕事をしている何ですか

ごめんなさい

Issues in Europe, I feel.

issues in India.

messages aren't posting, files aren't uploading.

issues in Europe

experiencing issues in South Africa

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