Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

69 pointsposted 9 months ago
by abatilo

Item id: 43968044

32 Comments

Mandatum

9 months ago

Whichever Salesforce employee has their bonus tied to this being declared an incident and not an outage; fuck you.

This has affected critical, operational processes which YOUR sales and marketing teams use in Case Studies[0][1][2] and documentation[3][4].

[0] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/react-veterans...

[1] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/veterans-affai...

[2] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/mta-new-york-c...

[3] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/productivity/why-every-bus...

[4] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/productivity/standard-oper...?

smcleod

9 months ago

I would not recommend basing your core business capabilities around an external chat app with no redundancy. Outages happen and always will.

cyberge99

9 months ago

If your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.

smcleod

9 months ago

Slack, Fastmail, Claude, Github - all seem to be having intermittent outages and are randomly logging people out.

rdm_blackhole

9 months ago

I got logged out of Fastmail as well. Do we have any ideas as to what happened?

mvdtnz

9 months ago

I could really do without a Fastmail outage today.

javierluraschi

9 months ago

https://slack-status.com/ -- no incidents reported at 3:33PM PST

fiatpandas

9 months ago

I'm seeing messages double post for some reason, both ones I send and ones from my coworkers. The 2nd message fails the first time. And the occasional connection error.

borland

9 months ago

Yes, slack is intermittently down for me and the rest of my company. It's intermittently losing messages, failing to load new ones, and showing error pages :-(

thehours

9 months ago

Yes, briefly for me. I also lost access to Fastmail.

MostlyAmiable

9 months ago

Yup, I just checked in multiple workspaces and I was unable to connect in all of them.

wave100

9 months ago

Yeah, just ran into a few blips. Seems to load intermittently.

javierluraschi

9 months ago

Yes, getting a bunch of retry and messages failing to send.

user

9 months ago

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JustSkyfall

9 months ago

Yep, I'm getting random issues too

ansonhw

9 months ago

was down (messages not going through) for me, then web was ok, then all went down, now back up

ansonhw

9 months ago

not sure why i didn't see any status updates

ansonhw

9 months ago

down again for me

tptacek

9 months ago

It's not just you.

flowardnut

9 months ago

uptime of 100% -- time to update that number :p

alook

9 months ago

I laughed out loud at that 100 number too when I was reading statuspage :P

seungwoolee518

9 months ago

Yeah! now I'm Learning How TCP Network is Work. trying to keep sending Messages twice.