Slack is Down

by fjordanon 3/7/2017, 4:42 PMwith 44 comments

by dsr_on 3/7/2017, 5:21 PM

It's harder (but not impossible) to have complete service lossage like this in a federated protocol.

That's why you didn't hear about the great email collapse of 2006.

by ptrptron 3/7/2017, 4:53 PM

Slack is down, productivity goes up... after using it for a while I find it does communications within a team well but does almost nothing to increase collaboration, so I guess slack is in area which apps like Discord will disrupt.

by mcrittendenon 3/7/2017, 4:51 PM

Seems to be up for me again. I wonder if 8 minutes of downtime is enough to warrant a post-mortem blog post.

by bernardlunnon 3/7/2017, 4:57 PM

I stopped using Slack. It is a productivity drain.

by mcrittendenon 3/7/2017, 5:42 PM

https://status.slack.com/2017-03/c0923f37c54988ec - basically just said that there was a broken code change which they reverted.

by rudolf0on 3/7/2017, 7:47 PM

>The status.slack.com was also overloaded during this time and it may have been inaccessible.

This is starting to become a common theme...