[dwild]

7$ for 5 minutes of downtime in a month? That seems good to me. 1 hour would be a better example I guess, 84$ for an hour of downtime, that seems to be low for the amount of work that "may" have been lost, but then, that's weird to depend on a chat software that much.

[Johnny555]

I don't see what's weird about that -- before companies relied on chat, they relied on email -- in my company email can go down and people hardly notice, but a Slack outage is immediately met with cries of "Hey, are you having trouble with Slack!?".

Before companies relied on email, they relied on phones. My company doesn't even provide desk phones for most staff, only Sales and other staff that need to make a lot of calls have them.

So what's so weird about companies relying on Slack?