If I were slack I would immediately stop whatever nonsense re-design they are probably doing and redirect all resources to getting their system stable. Who cares about where my messages are being reorganized to when the damn chat doesn't even work?
it is getting harder and harder to convince my higher ups to not switch us on to Microsoft Teams (which they practically consider free vs the thousands we spend monthly just for the dev team).<p>its one saving grace for us is the amount of legacy comments and history of discussions we have built up over years across conversations that is useful for reference.
Oh, thank goodness.<p>Whenever I have difficulty using a piece of corporate infrastructure, the Gary Owens voice from <i>Space Quest IV</i> says in my head: "Oh, by the way, you're about to be fired." So the first thing I do is check to see if it's just me. If others, or in this case the whole freakin' world, experience the same outage issues I breathe a bit easier.
> We are currently investigating, and apologise for the inconvenience caused.<p>I just want to say, this is much better than when people say "we apologize for any inconvenience this <i>may have caused</i>."<p>It's really inconvenient, thanks for just acknowledging that up front.
If they don’t get it together giant company that I work for who had thus far let engineers/product use slack is going to force us into ms teams. I hope they get it together. They are just handing it to Microsoft at this point with unforced errors.
I’m not intelligent in the huge scale distributed systems stuff but if there are outages every couple of weeks, why would you push code to production several times each day?<p>I honestly don’t know what’s in Slack which requires pushing code to production several times every day. I completely understand having that capability is required for any serious engineering org but what kind of churn is that? Maybe someone knowledgeable can help me understand.
Seems like it's becoming an issue on a weekly basis. Stability is essential - if that is not prioritized it's going downhill in the long term.