Ben Halpern Posted on May 13, 2020 Slack is down #watercooler Can't work? Time to party. (Hugops to Slack SRE ❤️) Top comments (21) Subscribe Personal Trusted User Create template Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Submit Preview Dismiss Collapse Expand Adam Nathaniel Davis Adam Nathaniel Davis Adam Nathaniel Davis Follow React acolyte, jack-of-all-(programming)trades, full-stack developer Email me@adamdavis.codes Location New Orleans, LA Work Frontend Software Engineer Joined Feb 18, 2020 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide While Slack was down, I completed my million+ LoC side project and cleared out every "tech-debt" ticket in our company's Jira queue. Collapse Expand Robert Robert Robert Follow [object Object] Location CA Joined Jul 29, 2019 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide It is! LOL thanks for letting me know. Now I can sleep again... Collapse Expand Robert Robert Robert Follow [object Object] Location CA Joined Jul 29, 2019 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide oh well, back to work Collapse Expand Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Ben Halpern Follow A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. Email ben@forem.com Location NY Education Mount Allison University Pronouns He/him Work Co-founder at Forem Joined Dec 27, 2015 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide 😄 Collapse Expand Rei Allen Ramos Rei Allen Ramos Rei Allen Ramos Follow Ruby/Ember dev learning to blog. Writing simple and straight-to-the-point tutorials! Location Singapore Work Software Engineer Joined Apr 19, 2020 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide You guys are lucky because it's about night time there. 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Location Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Education Self-taught Work Junior Backend Engineer at ChainWorks Industries Joined Nov 30, 2019 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Oh noes 😂 Collapse Expand Caleb Adepitan Caleb Adepitan Caleb Adepitan Follow I'm a dev who rose from thin ice Location Nigeria Work Full stack developer Joined Jun 28, 2019 • May 15 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Well npm was down earlier today's morning Collapse Expand Jesse M. Holmes Jesse M. Holmes Jesse M. Holmes Follow I follow new coders. Brass-bander. ADHD Avenger. Lover of giant hounds. Believer in the impossible. Location Annapolis, Maryland, United States Education Bachelor of Music Performance Joined Jul 27, 2018 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide I wish I could relate, but we get by with G-Suite. Collapse Expand Elliot Derhay Elliot Derhay Elliot Derhay Follow Joined May 18, 2018 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Funny, I was considering posting about this when I couldn't get on lol. Collapse Expand Julian R Figueroa Julian R Figueroa Julian R Figueroa Follow Software engineer Location Bogota, Colombia Work Software Engineer at Buf Joined Feb 25, 2019 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Is this like a new Twitter? haha Collapse Expand Ben Sinclair Ben Sinclair Ben Sinclair Follow I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century. These days I do more software architecture and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility. Location Scotland Education Something something cybernetics Pronouns They/them Work General-purpose software person Joined Aug 29, 2017 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide A great example of everyone relying on one centralised platform for something that (a) doesn't need to be the same as everyone else's and (b) doesn't need to be centralised. Collapse Expand Eric Ahnell Eric Ahnell Eric Ahnell Follow Indie game maker, professional user of Python and C#; programming addict in general. Location Ohio Education Bachelor's in Computer & Info Science from Cleveland State University Work Business Systems Analyst at Rockwell Automation Joined Jul 30, 2019 • May 13 '20 Dropdown menu Copy link Hide Slack is reachable for me. I wonder if it's a peerage dispute. Seen those selectively disrupting many services, but only for users on impacted ISPs. View full discussion (21 comments) Some comments may only be visible to logged-in visitors. Sign in to view all comments. Code of Conduct • Report abuse Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well Confirm For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse
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While Slack was down, I completed my million+ LoC side project and cleared out every "tech-debt" ticket in our company's Jira queue.
It is! LOL thanks for letting me know. Now I can sleep again...
oh well, back to work
😄
You guys are lucky because it's about night time there. From the other side of the world, we are just about to start ours :X
First Github, now this. I wonder what will go down next.
AWS? 🙊
Oh noes 😂
Well npm was down earlier today's morning
I wish I could relate, but we get by with G-Suite.
Funny, I was considering posting about this when I couldn't get on lol.
Is this like a new Twitter? haha
A great example of everyone relying on one centralised platform for something that (a) doesn't need to be the same as everyone else's and (b) doesn't need to be centralised.
Slack is reachable for me. I wonder if it's a peerage dispute. Seen those selectively disrupting many services, but only for users on impacted ISPs.
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