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I have intermittently faced each of these issues over the last hour across several European and a US Slack: * Messages are shown as sent (not grey), then, afte
by the_duke 6y ago
I have intermittently faced each of these issues over the last hour across several European and a US Slack:
* Messages are shown as sent (not grey), then, after several minutes, a "Try to send again" message appears. Or the message turns grey. Or both.
* The webapp randomly reloads. Sometimes already typed messages are preserved, sometimes they disappear. ( I assume a reload happens when a new version is deployed with some "force reload" flag )
* Threads and channels just show a loading spinner forever.
* After switching channels, all fonts disappear and just the menu background remains. No remedy except reload.
Outages happen. They get resolved. That's live, and it's fine.
What is not fine is how ill-equipped the frontend is to deal with such failures.
- mrmuagi 6y agoI used enterprise slack ~4 years ago for a job and I remember having these issues every so often. ~2 years ago I used free gitter for a university project and I had the same issues a lot, and we had to switch -- funnily enough, we switched to discord and it was better than all of them.
- lsaferite 6y agoMy only real complaint with Discord is how it treats audio (and maybe video?) links when you close and open the application. Don't make the mistake of shutting off your computer while connected to a voice chat as it will automatically resume the connection when it starts back up. Mute status being the same as it was when shut down if I recall.
- war1025 6y ago> The webapp randomly reloads. Sometimes already typed messages are preserved, sometimes they disappear. ( I assume a reload happens when a new version is deployed with some "force reload" flag ) I have been seeing some version of this on my laptop for months. Don't seem to have the same issue on my work computer. Maybe it will finally get resolved.