HackerNews is starting to become the real status page.
It even spans multiple services! I remember I learned about Google and YouTube down also from HN.
> Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. Our team is investigating and we will follow up with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for any disruption caused.
now they've upgraded from incident to outage and impact for all services.
We're continuing to investigate connection issues for customers, and have upgraded the incident on our side to reflect an outage in service. All hands are on deck on our end to further investigate. We'll be back in a half hour to keep you posted.
Was my first though too, really looks like they scale down based on the average of the last 2 weeks, but obviously this last 2 weeks would have been extremely low.
My thought was everyones local cache was expired and it's re-syncing everyone. Supposedly they run vitess for mysql sharding, and that could mean they're getting slammed by a lot of scatter or cross shard queries they can normally handle.
I keep thinking about this quote from Dr. Strangelove:
"Yes, but the... whole point of the doomsday machine(or in this case, the status page)... is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?"
Updated about three minutes after your comment. Twitter too.
> Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. Our team is investigating and we will follow up with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for any disruption caused.
It is still lying by showing almost services as green with "No issues"
Login/SSO -- No issues
Connections -- Something's not quite right View details
Messaging -- Something's not quite right View details
Link Previews -- No issues
Posts/Files -- No issues
Notifications -- No issues
Calls -- No issues
Search -- No issues
Apps/Integrations/APIs -- No issues
Workspace/Org Administration -- No issues
Customers may experience issues connecting to Slack to loading channels at this time. Our team is on the case and we will keep you posted. Apologies for any disruption.
I have to rely on Teams now, the horror. God forbid I have to start using the telephone next!
On a more serious note, downtime is not that bad, it probably allows me to focus without interruption for a bit, but will quickly create problems. Being the first day of the year, there is a lot of quarterly planning going on and many colleagues are reaching out for this. There is also the flurry of typical support queries after a break of nearly two weeks, at least for most.
I am in the UK, and Slack is very slow indeed. I can see message notifications popping up, but I struggle to read them as Slack is hanging. No official outage reported as of yet.
As ever, a fine demonstration of the disconnect between uptime and status pages. For any fairly large service HN and twitter are a far more reliable source.
Which begs the question, how are these things checked?
The status page of our app has failed due to so many reasons, eventually I just let the status page perform a few tasks a user would do, and undo them after that.
Not visiting a special status url, but basically running an e2e test suite on production.
HackerNews is starting to become the real status page. It even spans multiple services! I remember I learned about Google and YouTube down also from HN.