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Slack is down
- tcarn 9y agoBut the stupid status page says it's still up.... this is like S3 all over again https://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/
- empath75 9y agostatus page wasn't even responding for me.
- mtrpcic 9y agoI swear, most of these status pages could just be static HTML with how inaccurate they are during an actual outage.
- snoman 9y agoMost of the time these status pages sit on, and store data in, the same infrastructure as the things it's supposed to be reporting on.
- softawre 9y agoDo they really? Amazon did that one time but that was stupid of them. Most software companies use an external service (like statuspage.io) to host their status page.
- tcarn 9y agoHN Could make a killing selling a saas product that monitors if sites are up. Honestly it's more reliable at this point.
- snoman 9y agoOstensibly, that already exists: https://www.statuspage.io/ https://www.statuspage.io/
- corben 9y agoWe've actually created just that. https://hund.io https://hund.io We're a status page provider with built-in monitoring so if a service goes down the page will be updated.
- mbroshi 9y agoI believe OP's point was that aggregating crowd-sourced reporting of outages is surprisingly accurate and prompt, not that there aren't any other tools for reporting outages.
- rickyc091 9y agoProbably the case. I've seen the same thing with Heroku. I've report an issue, then half an hour later it gets updated. Could also be a bad cache that takes a while to invalidate.
- falcolas 9y agoIn my experience, changing the status pages at many companies involves a C-level decision, since that status page change serves as an admission of service outages. And service outages can trigger availability clauses in contracts, costing the company significant amounts of money. The mental acrobatics to justify not changing the status are often astounding: "One customer can load a partial page from Timbuktu, so we're not down."
- zucked 9y agoI can't even get that to load now. But it's Smmooooootttthhh Sailing :sunglasses:
- veb 9y agoUpdate from Slack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/950812653496053760 https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/950812653496053760
- ben174 9y agoThey finally updated it @ 11:45 AM Pacific
- mariojv 9y agoIt's been updated now. I think these kind of pages are usually updated manually by incident response teams.
- madmod 9y agoIt's because someone couldn't Slack the ops team. XD
- teilo 9y agoBe fair. They had it updated within 5 minutes. I know, because I had just sent a message before it went down. Compare to Amazon... an hour, two?
- ben174 9y agoIt was well over 20 minutes. Status pages should be automated and triggered via monitoring. Not a manual thing.
- draw_down 9y agoYep, down here. Checked status page, guess what it says. Edit: seems to be back, 5 minutes after I posted this Edit 2: Nope, still down
- derptacos 9y agoAh, good someone else! Thought it was the coffee shop internet.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- empath75 9y agoGuys can someone check all my jenkins builds for me and tell me what's going on, i'm flying blind here.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoIt's ok, bitbucket is down too. Let's take a break!
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoThoughts and prayers to all devs having to open Outlook.
- closed 9y agofirst thought after closing: peace at long last
- teddyc 9y agosame
- decentrality 9y agoFor the past few weeks there have been a series of 500 errors accumulating on strangely easy API requests ( like user presence detection ) on an increasing number of endpoint hits, more and more frequently.
- tcarn 9y agoAgreed. Also issues with the sidebar loading and the mentions bar loading.
- grafelic 9y agoMmmh, how peaceful it feels. Like someone turned Internet loudness off and the balance has shifted to life for a while.
- wokawoka 9y agowho cares. My business never goes down since it's email.
- coldcode 9y agoIt says to clear cache and restart. Now its sitting there...
- decentrality 9y agoThat was a notice posted for yesterday.
- dabber 9y agoBitbucket is also having issues since at least 13:47 UTC. https://status.bitbucket.org/ https://status.bitbucket.org/
- penetrarthur 9y agoYeah, had problems all day today!
- diggan 9y agoWhen things like this happen, I start thinking how much we got some things wrong, especially things like chat. Here I sit, with my colleagues, connected to the same network, with the same application open, but we cannot write to each other, because some backend server in the US have a problem. How in the world could this not have been fixed yet? Our internet backbone addiction is seriously crippling us when things go sour. Not thinking specifically about Slack, but other more mission-critical tools that just... stops working because they cannot ask the time from their backend server. We seriously need P2P systems (without blockchains please) that can be used by normal applications to solve issues like this. Offline and local network communication should be obligatory today.
- rwmj 9y agoWhy not simply use IRC?
- ben174 9y agoAt TiVo we used IRC. It was so nice.
- diggan 9y agoMy fear is not about Slack specifically, but in general the tools we're using today. They all assume that you have a internet connection at all times, and they just break when I don't. Even though when it's just about passing a few JSON objects around, that could easily be sent locally.
- cgag 9y agoemojis
- strictnein 9y agoASCII art > emojis
- cgag 9y ago
- oplav 9y agoUpdate on status page: https://status.slack.com/2018-01/d8cf1517de9ecfa8 https://status.slack.com/2018-01/d8cf1517de9ecfa8
- jtrujillo 9y agoNow time to go to twitter and read all of the tweets about slack being down.
- JdeBP 9y agoWhy, when you can come to Hacker News and read all of the duplicate postings? (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109335 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109132 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109140 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109194 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108912
- anonu 9y agoWhat's the problem here? This is the 2nd time I recall a major outage in the last few months. How can they get something so wrong? Where's the resiliency and failover? What could possibly happen that causes such a system-wide failure? Granted - I've never built or run any system on such a scale as Slack - but I think that I would have either 1. learned from past experience 2. built some anti-fragility into the thing...
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoEverybody thinks they have resiliency and failover. But like any software, until you try it, it doesn't work. It has to be debugged. And nobody is willing to put up entire data centers to try recovery from a system-wide failure. Especially not a startup company.
- QasimK 9y agoI think Netflix struck a good balance with their Chaos Monkey tool.
- p2t2p 9y agoHooray! Everybody can do some work now, without distractions! Be swift everybody, that’s your rare chance!
- ryanbertrand 9y agoEven the status page is down for me.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoNo problem, I'll just switch to a different server on this IRC network... oh.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- sethlesky 9y agoIs Slack's status page down as well? I can't reach https://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/
- mesofile 9y agosame here (mid-Atlantic, Verizon) edit: although I am now able to chat on Slack with some colleagues, the status page is still down for me
- amelius 9y agoThe silly thing is that Slack is perfectly shardable, as teams cannot communicate with other teams, so a global failure like this isn't necessary.
- vhost- 9y agoSlack has shared channels: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/115004151203-Create-shared-channels-on-a-workspace-beta- https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/115004151203-Create...
- triangleman 9y agoLastpass is also down.
- patrickg_zill 9y agoMattermost is a self hosted alternative to Slack. Very happy with it.
- decentrality 9y agoBack online //
- oppositelock 9y agoSlack going down really did something strange at my workplace. My cube-neighbors started talking to me using their mouths, instead of sending Slack messages. It was very disconcerting.
- DonHopkins 9y agoThere was a Glitch in the Matrix! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game)
- sitkack 9y agoMaybe someone ran the client on the server.