I admit my second message was terse, but the correct social media response for a critical outage is "we're looking into it". Not "if you want support, go here".
Like I said, I do not have time to hunt for whatever support channels exist and file a ticket. I pay $50 a year so they can deliver a working product, including triaging their own issues.
I strongly disagree.
For those reading who may not be on X, here's Fastmail's response:
> Hello Andrew! Can you please contact our support team so we can look into this for you? http://fastmail.com/support
That seems entirely appropriate to me, for several reasons:
- it's extremely unlikely that the person managing their social media profiles is a technical expert
- their contact page likely feeds into a ticketing system, which means they can track the issue and actually make sure to respond to you
- it's entirely possible that response was automatedTheir messaging probably could have been better here to say "we're looking into this. If you have time, please file a support request".
On Fastmail.com, the support request is two clicks away, under the big ? button in the upper right and "Contact Support". I'm not sure how much time you have but it took me less than 1 minute to find this button and submit from my logged in account.
This time, I was on the support ticket window, but the penny dropped and I realised it was a service outage / degradation. So I decided to hold back for a bit before filing a ticket.
Based on experience with their service, I trust that their people know what they are doing, and are already on the job.