Re:Slack – Degraded service affecting multiple features
by johannes1234321 on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:12PM
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Aside from features:
I have seen enough corporate mail servers going down, irc and jabber servers breaking etc.
Using those won't magically give you 24/7 with more than five nines uptime.
Key difference is: If slack goes down many companies are affected and it goes on the internet. If a company's mail setup goes down employees are a bit annoyed, but after a while it works again and nobody outside notices and it's no news on HN (unless it's a real major thing bringing a notable company completely down)
I have seen enough corporate mail servers going down, irc and jabber servers breaking etc.
Using those won't magically give you 24/7 with more than five nines uptime.
Key difference is: If slack goes down many companies are affected and it goes on the internet. If a company's mail setup goes down employees are a bit annoyed, but after a while it works again and nobody outside notices and it's no news on HN (unless it's a real major thing bringing a notable company completely down)