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Slack is Down

44 points by sinak 8y ago

Codesane 8y ago
I never really think about it, but for someone that works remote you feel very lonely when slack is down...
tspike 8y ago
"Smooth sailing" Edit: What's the common practice here for status pages? Shouldn't they be using external health checks to auto-update the page? Edit2: Seems to be working again for me
- beart 8y ago
  I had a related question - if you can't trust the status page to show when the application is down, then what does the 99.92% uptime actually measure?
- lwhsiao 8y ago
  Now they have the error circle, but all green checks elsewhere [0]. Seems that this might be manually updated. [0]: https://imgur.com/cEoFUiz https://imgur.com/cEoFUiz
- da_chicken 8y ago
  > What's the common practice here for status pages? Shouldn't they be using external health checks to auto-update the page? For Ops? Absolutely. Externally? No, not really. You don't necessarily want every conceivable blip or issue to be public knowledge, and you also want someone to provide some humanity to your status communications. There's a difference between "service is impacted" and "service is impacted significantly enough that all users/customers should know about it."
  - tspike 8y ago
    Makes sense, but if they're advertising 99.92% uptime, what does that mean if you can't trust that the status page is updated for real outages?
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orf 8y ago
Slack is down, we are also experiencing AWS issues (latency, hard to diagnose right now). Anyone else?
- hellcow 8y ago
  Yup. Here as well.
- alexman 8y ago
  I can't connect to Slack either. It says Server Error Sorry! Something went wrong, but we're looking into it. If the problem continues, please check our Status page for updates. But the status page says smooth sailing. Can't even contact them via https://my.slack.com/help/requests/new https://my.slack.com/help/requests/new
  - alexman 8y ago
    Seems that they're up now.
scottndecker 8y ago
And it's back!
framebit 8y ago
Status page is updated. Here's the outage status link: https://status.slack.com/2018-09/60787986d73e3949 https://status.slack.com/2018-09/60787986d73e3949
revx 8y ago
Seems to be back up. It was funny, my first instinct was to go on slack and tell everyone about it.

44 points by sinak 8y ago

I never really think about it, but for someone that works remote you feel very lonely when slack is down...

"Smooth sailing" Edit: What's the common practice here for status pages? Shouldn't they be using external health checks to auto-update the page? Edit2: Seems to be working again for me

beart 8y ago
I had a related question - if you can't trust the status page to show when the application is down, then what does the 99.92% uptime actually measure?
lwhsiao 8y ago
Now they have the error circle, but all green checks elsewhere [0]. Seems that this might be manually updated. [0]: https://imgur.com/cEoFUiz https://imgur.com/cEoFUiz
da_chicken 8y ago
> What's the common practice here for status pages? Shouldn't they be using external health checks to auto-update the page? For Ops? Absolutely. Externally? No, not really. You don't necessarily want every conceivable blip or issue to be public knowledge, and you also want someone to provide some humanity to your status communications. There's a difference between "service is impacted" and "service is impacted significantly enough that all users/customers should know about it."
- tspike 8y ago
  Makes sense, but if they're advertising 99.92% uptime, what does that mean if you can't trust that the status page is updated for real outages?

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orf 8y ago

Slack is down, we are also experiencing AWS issues (latency, hard to diagnose right now). Anyone else?

hellcow 8y ago
Yup. Here as well.
alexman 8y ago
I can't connect to Slack either. It says Server Error Sorry! Something went wrong, but we're looking into it. If the problem continues, please check our Status page for updates. But the status page says smooth sailing. Can't even contact them via https://my.slack.com/help/requests/new https://my.slack.com/help/requests/new
- alexman 8y ago
  Seems that they're up now.

scottndecker 8y ago

And it's back!

framebit 8y ago

Status page is updated. Here's the outage status link: https://status.slack.com/2018-09/60787986d73e3949 https://status.slack.com/2018-09/60787986d73e3949

revx 8y ago

Seems to be back up. It was funny, my first instinct was to go on slack and tell everyone about it.