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by amarraja 2911 days ago
Spare a thought for the chatops crowd who may be blissfully unaware that their own infrastructure is down
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I have little pity for the folks who decided that re-implementing a shell in a chat application was a well-conceived notion.
Hopefully they're learning this lesson.

I can just see it now. A company's app is dying from all the timeouts to a slack webhook, however they can't deploy because slack is down.

Oh god. Who would have a Slack webhook as a blocking part of their pipeline??
It's just login that's not working it seems.

I keep getting automated push notifications from our bots (but I still can't connect to the app myself).

We use it for things like relaying user-flagged messages to our support team and reminding us when scheduled content has been automatically released.