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Signal is down from several vantage points and accounts in Europe, I'd guess because of this dependence on Amazon overseas We're having fun figuring out how to
by Aachen 1y ago
Signal is down from several vantage points and accounts in Europe, I'd guess because of this dependence on Amazon overseas
We're having fun figuring out how to communicate amongst colleagues now! It's when it's gone when you realise your dependence
- lexandstuff 1y agoThankfully Slack is still holding up.
- netsharc 1y ago[flagged]
- philipallstar 1y agoAnd the post office still works, so ah, at least kidnappers can send ransom demands.
- tubs 1y agoIt’s super broken for me. Random threads no longer appear.
- LostMyLogin 1y agoIt’s acting up for me but wondering if it’s unrelated. Imagines failing to post and threads acting strange.
- tomwojcik 1y agoSame. My Slack mobile app managed to sync the new messages, but it took it about 30 seconds, while usually it's sub 2 seconds.
- rhdunn 1y agoSlack is having issues with huddles, canvas, and messaging per https://slack-status.com/ https://slack-status.com/. Earlier it was just huddles and canvas.
- esskay 1y agoLooks like its gone down now
- BoredPositron 1y agoOur last resort fallbacks are channels on different IRC servers. They always hold.
- endre 1y agosame here, we never left IRC
- Aachen 1y agoSelf hosting is golden. Sadly we already feel like we have too many services for our company's size, and the sensitivity of vulnerabilities in customer systems precludes unencrypted comms. IRC+TLS could be used but we also regularly send screenshots and such in self-destructing messages (not that an attacker couldn't disable that, but to avoid there being a giant archive when we do have some sort of compromise), so we'd rather fall back to something with a similar featureset As a degraded-state fallback, email is what we're using now (we have our clients configured to encrypt with PGP by default, we use it for any internal email and also when the customer has PGP so everyone knows how to use that)
- bananapub 1y agoself-hosting isn't "golden", if you are serious about the reliability of complex systems, you can't afford to have your own outages impede your own engineers from fixing them. if you seriously have no external low dep fallback, please at least document this fact now for the Big Postmortem.
- Aachen 1y agoThe engineers can walk up to the system and do whatever they need to fix them. At least, that's how we self host in the office. If your organisation hosts it far away then yeah, it's not self hosted but remote hosted
- lmm 1y ago> The engineers can walk up to the system and do whatever they need to fix them. Including fabricating new RAM?
- tcumulus 1y agoWell, at least I now know that my Belgian university's Blackboard environment is running on AWS :)
- Traubenfuchs 1y ago> We're having fun figuring out how to communicate amongst colleagues now! When Slack was down we used... google... google mail? chat. When you go to gmail there is actually a chat app on the left.