On: Slack is down

[joana035]

Lots of services quite red on https://downdetector.com

[MR4D → joana035]

Interesting that PG&E is on the list for power outage in SF.

Wonder if that's related?

https://downdetector.com/status/pge/

[jmartens → joana035]

Unfortunately, Down Detector doesn't actually monitor these services, so we don't know if they are truly down. Down detector relies on human behavior, and we all know humans don't act rationally.

[ceejayoz → joana035]

Down Detector largely seems to track daily workplace usage patterns more than meaningful outages.

[joana035 → ceejayoz]

Which is great to detect common issues across many companies. For example, clicking on the cards shows that many of them are related to "network connection".

[ceejayoz → joana035]

It's not, though. They're all spiking because everyone got back from the weekend. Just look at the comments.

H&R Block's page there has this as the most recent comment, from an hour ago:

> My sister was able to have a bank pull money off her card yes her old card dunno which bank ill find out in bit

Two hours ago:

> I went to atm and thought I was crazy my pin wasnt working.

These reports are entirely useless.