Comment on Ask HN: Is Slack Down?Comments−Mandatum1yWhichever 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...?−smcleod1yI would not recommend basing your core business capabilities around an external chat app with no redundancy. Outages happen and always will.−cyberge991yIf your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.
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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...?
I would not recommend basing your core business capabilities around an external chat app with no redundancy. Outages happen and always will.
If your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.