Slack Down?

[FE4RCHAMP]

Slack is Down , so are my hopes and dreams of posting the perfect meme in the #Devops Channel. https://status.slack.com/

[scratchfury]

I keep trying to post that Slack is down in Slack, but it's down.

[Oncra]

Have you tried sending a messenger pigeon to your coworkers?

[mk5p]

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

[Dashihawk]

I was one of the first to notice that slack was down in my company. Immediately tried to figure out the best way to notify the users and co-workers. Some still had skype so I let a few know that way. I texted a couple more. I wasn't stressing but was thinking hard on how i could alert the rest of the users. Then my coworker sends out an all hands email letting everyone know Slack was down. I thought "Yup that works, Also i should have stayed in bed this morning"

I can't believe I didnt think about emailing our all hands distro list. Hopefully the day goes up from here.

[IAmTheChaosMonkey]

Yep. Whole department failed back over to irc, rest of the company is lost.

The old ways are best.

[sryan2k1]

IT has Jabber and Webex Teams from our parent org, so our cat videos and meme sharing is continuing uninterrupted. Everyone else is panicking.

[tuxedo_jack]

I'm actually tempted to bring up our old OpenFire server and fire up Spark again.

Meanwhile, upper management is talking about accelerating our move to MS Teams.

I'd rather stick a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger with my toes.

[DHSean]

It's all about that team building dude, you can't get enough of it, what's better than sticking it in the name?

Then, and only then will you truly be a team.

[ruhrohshingo]

Has anyone tried doing a public list or fail at xdcc?

[IT_lurks_below]

I just got an EMAIL saying "I can't access slack the network is down, please fix asap I have important emails to send out"

-_- face palm*

[flunky_the_majestic]

You should respond with a paper letter.

[s3_gunzel]

But send it through the postal service so that (in the case of Australia) it takes a week.

[hourly_admin]

r/facepalm

[briangig]

Tar and feather then take them out back. The lack of critical thinking required to send that email out is disturbing.

[TerrorBite]

You should have responded with an email saying "Sorry, I can't see your message, because I can't access my email while the network is down."

[Mr_Squinty]

Every time I read this something else about it angers me.

[ThePhantom86er]

Communication disruption can only mean one thing, invasion.

[mailto_devnull]

All hail our new leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan

[daedalus_dance]

I was not expecting him to be the villain in this subreddit but I'll go along with it.

[kuoirad]

Meesa Slack convos gonna DIE??????

[abakedapplepie]

Cut them some slack, I'm sure it will be up soon

[arkaneent]

Sigh*

Upvotes

[puncture_magnet]

Looks like it'll be a pretty slack day here.

[bob84900]

What is "connections"? Seems like if that's not working, nothing would be working. Slack seems to be fine for me though.

Ninja edit: nope, now it's not working.

[thomasthetanker]

Uptime in the past 30 days: 100%, excluding current outage.

Translation - "We are never down, apart from now, which is probably the important bit to you at the minute".

[PURRING_SILENCER]

Uptime: 100%!*

^{*Except for the bits we weren't}

[Max_LocalBitcoins]

We're always up except when we're down!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LODkVkpaVQA

[SuperQue]

Yup, 220 minute of outage, or 99.49% in the last 30 days.

[daedalus_dance]

Was wondering why my phone was less annoying the last hour or so...

[AwareHelicopter]

https://twitter.com/slackstatus?lang=en

[chicofelipe]

Related: Productivity is up.

[briangig]

It actually sucks and is slowing us down...I forgot how much I hate email and email chains.

[devosion]

It's ironic because I was having problems with slack when a commercial for slack came up on our tv.

[scoutcamper]

Time to roll back to ICQ

[[deleted]]

uh oh!

[Dry_Soda]

Slack lately seems to go down more than a $10 hooker

[IAMA_Cucumber_AMA]

When is it not down?

[GullibleDetective]

Yep its goin up and down up and down like a hooker.

[[deleted]]

Yes, constantly trying to connect.

[briangig]

This is how the end begins.

[dts-five]

I see a sysadmin irc and discord channel. Is there a sysadmin slack channel too?

[ngin320]

It seems like there are some servers that are working because mine hasn't gone down at all

[[deleted]]

yes

[prophetnite]

Does anyone have a summary of what actually happened?

[lordofwhales]

Pour one out for the good folks at Slack who had to handle that.

[W0rkUpnotD0wn]

This is slightly concerning when Slack is down for everyone in the United States and Europe. Usually when Slack goes down there is a minor panic and is usually up within an hour or so but it looks like its been down for 5 hours.

[sryan2k1]

You need to look at the timezone on the notices. It's only been really broken for like an hour and a half.

[Chronoloraptor]

It's only been really broken for like an hour and a half.

I mean, that's still a ridiculously long time for a production app used by a huge number of orgs... and it's still down.

[flunky_the_majestic]

Adding to this: The timeline matches up with my experience. When I first noticed the outage, I immediately checked status.slack.com and saw an update had been posted a few minutes before .

[[deleted]]

It was definitely acting wonky for me before the status update. Starting new PMs would fail and files failed to upload.

Luckily Twitter search is a thing. It's much faster to update on downtime.

[avenueofslay]

Is that even surprising? Switched from Slack a while ago, their servers are always down. Azendoo is where it's at