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Zoom.us is down
- lachtan 4y agoSame for us, we're hosting 3 events right now, neither seems to be working, nor can we log in to their website.
- rkwasny 4y agoWhat a day...
- boplicity 4y agoWe're hosting a live event in 3 hours -- expecting 1,000 people to show up. Hopefully things will be working by then!
- ta988 4y agoYou have 3 hours to setup an alternative. That's doable if you have the emails.
- danuker 4y agoYou can host a video stream (but make it low-def; 1000 people x 1MBPS = 1GBPS) https://obsproject.com/ https://obsproject.com/ Alternatively use a centralized service (YouTube, Twitch). Or, there's also the P2P Jami (but this requires the participants to install something): https://jami.net/ https://jami.net/
- whoomp12342 4y agobut a lot of embarrassing noise if it would work just fine in 3 hours. tough call. I suggest using an IRC channel for the event instead.
- gberger 4y agoIt's even more embarrassing if it ends up not working. Better safe than sorry.
- whoomp12342 4y agowooooooooooooooooooooooosh
- freemint 4y agoPlease what? Who is your audience that more then 20% of them could reliably run an IRC client and join the right server?
- JellyBeanThief 4y agoI believe that was a joke.
- kypro 4y agoWhat's the quick alternative out of interest? And is it free?
- wantguns 4y agohttps://meet.element.io/randommeetname https://meet.element.io/randommeetname
- DoctorOW 4y agoMy day job is doing the same size event over Zoom at the same time... What a weird coincidence.
- wdb 4y agoGoing to be a productive day :)
- brink 4y agoProbably not; teams will spend more time trying to use an alternative
- maest 4y agohttps://status.zoom.us https://status.zoom.us is green, even though service is down/severely degraded.
- kull 4y agoService status pages are so useless.
- lxchase 4y agoAt this point, I just default to downdetector
- WarOnPrivacy 4y agoIt's for nostalgia - the one bit of early web that's still unchanged.
- juice_bus 4y agoWhat use are status pages when you need to get VP+ clearance to acknowledge an outage? We see this time and time again with major services. It is a shame that we have to find out about outages on HN.
- toomuchtodo 4y ago> What use are status pages Marketing and sales. Not /s We are in dire need of something crowdsourced, or where someone like DataDog or other telemetry systems offer you the ability to share non sensitive metrics publicly for various cloud or SaaS systems that they publish. Edit: y’all are amazing with these monitoring tools!
- austinpena 4y agoBuilt something like that at https://taloflow.ai/is-aws-down https://taloflow.ai/is-aws-down Looks like there’s been some errors too
- CoastalCoder 4y ago
- mikece 4y agoI can assure you I am not a cat. And I didn't crash Zoom. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Cat_Lawyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Cat_Lawyer
- flatiron 4y agoim on a zoom right now, works fine....
- bombcar 4y agoDon't close the bridge! I've had them continue to work as long as you didn't close it when there's an authentication, etc error.
- dangus 4y agoClose the bridge, then when it doesn't work you have a valid excuse not to work.
- vaylian 4y agoor a valid excuse to actually get work done instead of wasting time in meetings.
- dangus 4y agoIn the employer employee relationship, the employer is responsible for providing functioning tools. Maintaining productivity when those tools cease to function encourages the employer to underinvest in tools and burden the employee.
- duxup 4y ago>Don't close the bridge! Unless you don't want there to be a meeting(s)... just say'n.
- bombcar 4y agoYour lack of dedication to Sparkle Meetings has been noted.
- boplicity 4y agoMaybe it's just the website, login, links, etc that are broken? I can't log in and can't open Zoom links.
- AlecSchueler 4y agoHooray for centralisation of infrastructure!
- jeromegv 4y agoNot the best example as there's likely a dozen service someone could switch to. People choose Zoom mostly because they like it, not by lack of choice.
- whoomp12342 4y agowell there should be more competitors I actually like.
- geraldwhen 4y agoBusinesses aren’t willing to pay, and thus they don’t exist.
- noirbot 4y agoThey aren't? Every company I've worked at pays through the nose for one of GTM/Zoom/BlueJeans/Lifesize/Chime. Zoom is definitely the least bad of them in my experience, not that I like it at all. Lack of customers willing to pay doesn't seem to have stopped there from being a bounty of terrible alternatives.
- xigoi 4y agoIt's the host that chooses the platform, participants don't get to choose.
- whoomp12342 4y agoisnt it funny how we love decentralization in the cloud but that really just consolidates our resources to 3 main companies? like, yes I get it multi regions makes you safer, but given vendor lock if aws fucks up across the board with a bug, we all fuck up across the board.
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- morpheuskafka 4y agoAt least one Zoom Enterprise splash page is showing the generic nginx error message, which initially made me think it was just our tenant since the other subdomains I tried would load the login screen. But sounds like that is not the case.
- fancymcpoopoo 4y agoso what? shit goes down once in a while. sometimes you have a cloudy day.
- bombcar 4y agoHmm going to https://us02web.zoom.us/join https://us02web.zoom.us/join and clicking a join link directly worked fine 30 minutes ago.
- dancemethis 4y agoHopefully forever, one less privacy-hostile proprietary thingie around.
- rkwasny 4y agoZoom is an enterprise solution, privacy is not really a problem, they don't sell ads
- brink 4y agoOP is talking about China and the CCP, I think
- el-salvador 4y agoI think Zoom now has a separate brand for China. I was in a Zoom call with a big Chinese company some months ago, and they used something that looked the same as zoom but had a Chinese name. Edit: I think it was this one: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/03/zoom-to-halt-direct-sales-of-services-to-users-in-china.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/03/zoom-to-halt-direct-sale... https://www.zhumu.com/ https://www.zhumu.com/
- fsflover 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210076
- slenk 4y agoBecause the other corporate solutions are better? I will take Zoom over Teams/Google
- dijonman2 4y agoI think Google is a better option especially if you have corp gmail. I am not a fan of o365/teams so I do agree with you there. Just my grievances are rooted in UX
- aaahq 4y agoAble to log in again as of 10:40am Eastern.
- jasonjayr 4y agoZoom's Phone Service is working for us as of just now ...
- tiffanyh 4y agoI've been on nonstop zoom calls all morning (last 5 hours), no issues.
- bastardoperator 4y agoSame, not seeing any issues.
- xwowsersx 4y agoSorry to hear. We're here for you.
- lndevops 4y agoStatus pages lie to us/are generally inaccurate for a bunch of reasons. Here's just a few of them: https://metrist.io/blog/why-status-pages-are-lying-to-you-and-what-to-do-about-it/ https://metrist.io/blog/why-status-pages-are-lying-to-you-an...