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Slack is down
- leesalminen 11y agoI can't even get to status.slack.com ... I really hope that isn't on production infrastructure! GET https://slack.com/favicon.ico https://slack.com/favicon.ico 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity
- cjbprime 11y agoThe fact that we can't get to it means that it is, surely? :)
- ratsimihah 11y ago| "Back-end server is at capacity" DDoS?
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- Xorlev 11y ago503 = at capacity, default response an ELB returns when all the servers in the ELB are OutOfService (or missing).
- Goopplesoft 11y agoAlso AWS's error code for no healthy nodes in elb.
- nodesocket 11y agoWow, that is a fail hosting your status page in the same datacenter/environment as production. Honestly, a bit surprised, since Slack has always seemed on top of things.
- npizzolato 11y agoIf you can't get to the status page, it's probably a good indication the service is down :)
- nodesocket 11y agoYou're missing the point. It is for communication to your customers. Give them an outline of what is happening and an estimated eta to being back up.
- baby 11y agoUsually companies do that with twitter/facebook nowadays. Status page has always been a stopgap. That's why we had http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
- SanDimasFootbal 11y agojeebus
- polysaturate 11y agoIIRC this error message is throw when an AWS ELB is empty(in my experience). I'd imagine it could be thrown if all servers in the ELB are maxed out.
- RaitoBezarius 11y agoI can connect to my Slack team, but then "Apologies, troubles connecting to Slack" :/.
- rinchik 11y agoHa. if you refresh it comes back up. Looks like only some of the nodes are down
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- Albright 11y agoHuh, Freenode is still working YEAH I WENT THERE.
- jgillman 11y agoAnd they laugh when you try to explain that decentralized services are good. :/
- giancarlostoro 11y agoIt's almost like the text editor wars.
- Sanddancer 11y agoThat is until the next netsplit. Decentralized servers mean partition events can and do happen.
- baby 11y agoI just see opportunities for netsplit parties.
- tspike 11y agoI don't envy being their social media person right now.
- jusben1369 11y agoFeels very DDoSe
- whalesalad 11y agoThis might have something to do with it? They are Inc. magazine's company of the year: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201512/jeff-bercovici/slack-company-of-the-year-2015.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/201512/jeff-bercovici/slack-comp...
- bcruddy 11y agoI didn't notice an interruption on the desktop client and it's been logged in for about 7 hours now and slack.com looks fine. Interestingly enough https://status.slack.com https://status.slack.com is currently down while curling status.slack.com returns a page that says it's moved to https://status.slack.com https://status.slack.com
- cortesoft 11y agoYou mean the http redirect to https is up but the https site is down.
- bcruddy 11y agoNo I meant it returned an HTML page that said "this link as moved" with a link directing you to https://status.slack.com https://status.slack.com
- cortesoft 11y agoUmm, yeah that is called a 302 redirect: curl http://status.slack.com http://status.slack.com <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>302 Found</title> </head><body> <h1>Found</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="https://status.slack.com">here</a>.</p> https://status.slack.com">here</a>.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at status.slack.com Port 80</address> </body></html> The HTML parts are fallback for if your browser (or curl) in this case doesn't handle a 302
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoI'm getting SSL errors from httpie: http: error: SSLError: hostname 'status.slack.com' doesn't match either of '2015-06-25.dev.slack.com', 'slack.com', 'slack-files.com', 'slack-redir.com', 'slack-redir.net', 'dev.slack.com', '.dev.slack.com', '.enterprise.dev.slack.com', 'dev.slack-files.com', 'dev.slack-redir.com', 'dev.slack-redir.net'
- woodruffw 11y agoJust another reason for OSS projects to never trust closed (centralized!) protocols: no recourse when it (inevitably) hits the fan.
- callumjones 11y agoExcept when you have to manage it yourself and something breaks or the infrastructure you have to manage needs managing.
- woodruffw 11y agoSee the comment above. If you're using Slack to avoid managing infrastructure, there are plenty of great (read: open source) alternatives. Even if IRC isn't for you, there's XMPP, Mattermost [0], Let's Chat [1], and Zulip [2]. [0]: http://www.mattermost.org/ http://www.mattermost.org/ [1]: https://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/ https://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/ [2]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip https://github.com/zulip/zulip
- it33 11y agoMattermost team here, thanks for the mention! Just to add, you can use IRC clients to connect to Mattermost https://twitter.com/mattermosthq/status/668898122630721538 https://twitter.com/mattermosthq/status/668898122630721538
- woodruffw 11y agoHey, I didn't know that - that's awesome! Keep up the good work - I'm glad to see an open source group tackling the problem of rich messaging.
- cortesoft 11y agoI feel like this is the same sort of argument that opponents of self-driving cars will use - "We shouldn't use self driving cars, because they have problems sometimes and a driver doesn't have recourse to correct it!" While this might be true, we are still trading more problems for fewer problems. Yes, we can't fix slack when it breaks, but it still breaks a lot less than when we were running our own internal chat client.
- rekoros 11y agoWe see about 15% of Slack connections failing at https://sameroom.io https://sameroom.io As an aside, we highly recommend having a contingency plan with another chat system on hot-standby. Here's more: https://sameroom.io/blog/when-team-chat-goes-down-are-you-ready/ https://sameroom.io/blog/when-team-chat-goes-down-are-you-re...
- skepticaluchiha 11y agoThis is why IRC is superior.
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- ossreality 11y agoare you... are you serious?
- LinuXY 11y agoApparently you've never experienced repeated netsplits under DDoS.
- osipovas 11y agoWhat's the real world analogy to Slack being down? Locking your entire team out of the offices? Since the start, at our company we've used Slack. We have never experienced an outage like this. Definitely a strange and uncomfortable feeling not having Slack available.
- drinchev 11y agoI also can't connect and status slack seems down. What I saw was their twitter status : > We’re having sporadic connectivity issues, and we’re investigating, and working as hard as we can to resolve them. Updates will follow! [1] : https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/668879517922914304 https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/668879517922914304
- jzd 11y agoMy company is unaffected because we use MatterMost internally
- thethimble 11y agoIronically, everyone at our company is heads down and working uninterruptedly. Productivity seems to have gone up without the interruptions!
- Xorlev 11y agoAside a jaunt over to HackerNews? ;) I agree. As an aside, Slack has been getting so much usage internally (and everyone learned about @notifications) that it's turned into a massive source of interrupts. It's hard to idle in a number of channels without eventually getting @channel notifications. Perhaps it's a cultural thing here, but there's an expectation that questions are answered immediately unlike email. I've taken to turning off Slack for periods every day to get work done.
- cuonic 11y agoFor the few people that managed to get to their status page it appears that they're also having problems there: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUhbPDOW4AA35Y-.png:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUhbPDOW4AA35Y-.png:large
- seanjregan 11y agoouch status page is down too
- seanjregan 11y agoouch status page is down too
- seanjregan 11y agoouch status page is down too
- nicholasjarnold 11y agoWe experienced connectivity issues until a few minutes ago. Everything appears to be back to normal on our company's Slack account now. YMMV
- Geert_Wilders 11y agoBURN BABY BURN
- Arathorn 11y agoDecentralisation ftw :)
- tedmiston 11y agoThat's an interesting decimal truncation convention. http://i.imgur.com/FiJ4G4i.png http://i.imgur.com/FiJ4G4i.png "Let's only show precision that makes us look good."
- tedmiston 11y agoFor convenience, the numbers on their status page [1] are: May 2015 99.999% April 2015 99.9% March 2015 99.999% February 2015 99.995% January 2015 99.99% December 2014 100% November 2014 99.84% October 2014 99.9% September 2014 99.998% 1: https://status.slack.com/calendar https://status.slack.com/calendar
- dillonykyang 11y agoHipchat is always down.
- swagv 11y agoOr not. Is this really news?
- _virtu 11y agoYeah but http://chatroom.horse/ http://chatroom.horse/ isn't.
- AlbertoGP 11y agoIt lacks some features until it can be a Slack replacement. What's their current valuation?
- SanDimasFootbal 11y agoAt some point Group chat is crossing into tier1 messaging infrastructure and all the sexy things that go along with it, especially when you start charging money.
- lewisl9029 11y agoSo this makes me wonder... Why hasn't Slack made a self-hosted version yet? Having a self-hosted option would make them viable to businesses that would never consider having their team communications archived and dependent on external servers outside their control. I imagine there are plenty of those out there.