Slack is awake again as of about five minutes ago. I honestly thought everyone was just being really quiet since it was most folks' first day back from vacation!
Zoe: Captain will come up with a plan. Kaylee: That's good. Right? Zoe: Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans.
'Safe'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2021 10:26:07 am PST #1894 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
NoiseDesign - Jan 04, 2021 10:51:13 am PST #1895 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, we've been using Slack for my little company for quite a few years now and those days when it goes out it feels like I'm partially blind or something.
-t - Jan 04, 2021 11:19:09 am PST #1896 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Whew, I was able to log into my credit union. Mostly it was just making me anxious to not be able to see my balance. Now I am hoping that doesn't mean my bank's security is somehow reliant on Slack...
Jessica - Jan 04, 2021 11:47:12 am PST #1897 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In pre-Covid times, Slack going down would have just meant a slightly louder office since people would fall back on, you know, talking to each other out loud. These days losing access to the group chat is so completely isolating!
Calli - Jan 04, 2021 12:31:10 pm PST #1898 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yes, Slack is back for us again, too.
Even before COVID, my team's spread over two offices and everyone would work from home at least one day a week. So Slack's pretty important to us. Someone in our morning Zoom meeting suggested switching to MS Teams and everyone else pretty much recoiled, hissing like vampires who just saw a crucifix.
msbelle - Jan 04, 2021 12:33:17 pm PST #1899 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I cannot even get my co-workers to reliably use jabber IM. Cannot imagine using slack for work.
I still fight with several to use email rather than the phone.
bennett - Jan 04, 2021 12:43:28 pm PST #1900 of 30000
Our University's tech people have moved to MS Teams so my boss has been pushing it for internal communication. So not pretty
-t - Jan 04, 2021 12:45:26 pm PST #1901 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
One of my customers uses MS Teams for our monthly conference call. It does not seem great, just from that limited exposure.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2021 12:48:12 pm PST #1902 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was furious when they introduced Teams when we were still in the office, but I've gotten used to it. Basically it feels like mediocre versions of five different things shoved together. I still don't think it makes sense for most document storage, but we still have our regular files (so far) so that's OK.
Jessica - Jan 04, 2021 1:04:10 pm PST #1903 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Someone in our morning Zoom meeting suggested switching to MS Teams and everyone else pretty much recoiled, hissing like vampires who just saw a crucifix.
We have an internal chat/meeting app that was our only option before Slack, and literally NOBODY fell back on it during the Slack outage this morning. Because we hates it, precious.