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- App Crashing (50%)
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The most recent Slack outage reports came from the following cities:
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 New York City
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App Crashing | 1 month ago |
 Brest
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Connection | 2 months ago |
 Ródos
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Messaging | 3 months ago |
 Belo Horizonte
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Connection | 3 months ago |
 Jewar
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App Crashing | 3 months ago |
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Colorado Springs
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Messaging | 3 months ago |
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Luke Hutchison (@LukeHutchison) reportedWhy we're SaaSmaxxing at Perfect Venue Three months ago I tried vibe coding our way out of half our SaaS stack and racked up a $20k Replit bill. Now we are doing the opposite, doubling down on our existing vendors and adding more to our stack. It started small. A better prospecting tool built in Replit. ICP scoring, competitor signals, enrichment. It "worked," and that was the problem. I could come up with an idea and within minutes a version that "worked" was in front of me. It was a lot of fun at first. Once you see how fast you can build exactly what you want, scope creeps hard. Within weeks I was eyeing our ATS, our feedback board, and parts of HubSpot. Part of me also wanted to try vibe coding because when you're leading a company where "apocalypse" is being added to your industry category, I thought it would be good to know if it was a real threat or just hype. We sell software to restaurants and venues. Homegrown spreadsheets and internal tools have always been our biggest competitor, long before AI. So the real question wasn't "can you build your own?" It was: has that math actually shifted, or does it just feel like it has? But then reality set in. I was quickly reminded of the saying in engineering that "the first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, and the remaining 10% takes another 90% of the time." Getting a demo working was fast, but feature requests and bugs quickly piled up. Obviously we could put the feature requests in the icebox, but that defeats one of the main goals of custom software: being able to customize it to your business. The problem is that customization requires a customizer. Every field and edge case routed through one person. Me. Next, we explored having an engineer work on building a more sustainable solution. However, the direct cost of that engineer working on an internal tool was much higher than all of our SaaS spend combined. The indirect cost was even higher, because it meant that engineer was not working on our core product and building features that could drive much more revenue than the costs they would be able to reduce, not to mention stronger market positioning. There were also other indirect costs. I was interviewing for a recruiting role and explaining to her that we were moving off Ashby to a vibe coded tool. As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I could tell that decision was a bug and not a feature. The reality is that people have worked with many popular SaaS tools for years. They may not love them, but they know how to work with them, and they can focus on doing their job instead of being a design partner for a vibe coded tool. Another challenge was that growth meant building. Even if we were able to build and maintain a custom solution, it was just for a point in time. As the team and company grew, we needed new functionality. With a SaaS vendor, it is very rare that we would need something they didn't already have. They've been solving for the needs of thousands of businesses for years, it's rare we would really need something that another one of their customers had not come across before. Often we'd have to pay more, but it was as simple as a quick upgrade. With a vibe coded solution, it meant understanding the problem, designing and building a solution, and then maintaining it. So where are we today? We're SaaSmaxxing. We're getting everything we already paid for out of the tools we already have - here is how we're doing it. Use AI to better use our SaaS tools. Instead of seeing the problem as AI vs. SaaS, we're using AI to help us better use the tools we have. One of the most frustrating things about SaaS products is that they can be complex and hard to use, with settings buried and functionality hidden. Help centers only go so far. With Claude, I'm able to explain what I'm trying to do, and it can help me configure our existing tools or find a product that integrates with our existing software and solves the problem. Use vibe coding to prototype functionality we wish we had. When there is functionality that we wish we had with our vendors, we'll vibe code a prototype and then find ways to recreate that functionality with our existing tools. Take the 80/20 and move on. Almost every improvement we wanted had a good-enough version in a product we already paid for. Solving for the last 20% was far more expensive than it was worth. Clearly define the problem. As a business owner, my problem was that it was frustrating to log into all of these different tools to understand what was going on with my business. I now use a tool called Viktor to easily pull information across all of our different tools and send reports to me in Slack. File the feature request. Their roadmap is free engineering. A vendor building it once for a thousand customers beats me building it once for us. Has the build-versus-buy line moved? Yes. Building the feature list is dramatically cheaper than it was two years ago. But the feature list was never the expensive part. Owning it is. For the vast majority of our vendors, the amount we pay is a fraction of the value we get, even in the AI era. Our industry is changing faster than ever, and who knows what functionality new models will bring, but this is where we've landed for now. We're buying @HubSpot, @SlackHQ, Canny, Ashby, etc - and focusing on building Perfect Venue faster than ever with the help of AI. Great work @dharmesh and team on the continued updates!
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Ari Dehkordi (@arashdehkordiHQ) reported@karrisaarinen @SlackHQ Did Linear do this before agents? I tried project-level Slack channels at my org and found it works for enterprise engagements nicely, but breaks down at feature/epic level projects for our SaaS. There's a granularity sweet spot, too fine and context switching costs spike. Too coarse and projects blur. Plus no project is actually isolated in small teams, so cross-project conversations forced more people onto each channel and productive engagement suffered. I get the AI context-confinement angle, but curious what other benefits you're seeing?
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Savi (@SaviPabla) reported@trq212 Please @SlackHQ help us. I’m so tired of telling ppl to download. I’ve now started making videos of the html files and then sharing file as well lol
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mewc (@the_mewc) reported@SlackHQ lots of bugs and issues right now. Can't create channels and lots of jankyness. This release is a lot.
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duh (@qudnesa) reported@SlackHQ @question_base why not fix your own agent first?
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Agustín Ruiz (@aguscruiz) reportedHi @SlackHQ, can you please fix this notification dot issue? It's been bothering me for like a month or more already. It shows that I have something unread when I don't. Even hovering on it makes the dot go away when there's something unread. It's very annoying for people with "unread anxiety" like me lol. Thank you 🫶
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jimmy hackett (@j1mmyhackett) reportedthe most dangerous bug isn't the one that crashes. it's the one that says 'all good' when it isn't. i had a checker that was supposed to flag a problem. it was reporting green. every single run. turns out it was checking the documentation of the thing it was hunting, not the thing itself. so whenever the problem existed and was documented, the checker saw the doc, said 'found it, it's tracked', and moved on. confident. wrong. this happened twice in the same week in two different places. a report card that shipped one of its four answers unconditionally regardless of the actual data. a monitor that was asserting schema state it had never actually read. both passed. both lied. the lesson i keep relearning: a check that can't fail toward a confident opposite is not a check. it's a placebo. the question isn't 'does this run without error.' the question is 'what would this have to see to fire, and can it actually see that thing.' if the answer to 'can it see it' is 'well, kind of, it reads the notes about it'. you don't have a checker. you have a script that reads its own homework. @SlackHQ kept posting green cards. @AnthropicAI's Claude Code kept summarising them as healthy. everything looked fine. nothing was. what's the quietest false-green you've shipped?
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Livleen Gill (@nutritogo) reported@SlackHQ - having a very difficult time with your product as a new customer. No help
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Ellen DaSilva (@ellenjdasilva) reportedSketchy behavior: Someone from @SlackHQ joined my company channel last week saying "we're here to help you with the product" (we're not having issues). Then today started pestering me about an overdue invoice (we don't have one). Beyond violating. Shameful behavior @salesforce.
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Kelly Carter (@Gr8fulTr8s) reported@SlackHQ issues connecting to a new workspace. Where can I get support?
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Rohan (@iamTRA) reportedSlack upload API down? @SlackHQ Cratered team's morning.
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HOURLY LIFE of Fred Campos (@FredsDaily) reported7:30a Getting email down to zero and loading both the website support and production teams in @SlackHQ.
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SGN (@SGN06380601) reported@SlackHQ i need customer service help and am not getting a response from your agentforce. can you please help?
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Theodor Marcu (@theodormarcu) reportedPutting an agent in Slack creates a very different UX problem: it has to know when to shut up We spent a lot of time tuning when Devin should speak, stay quiet, or move work into a separate channel. Devin was the first agent to support Slack natively, so it was great to bring 2 years of those learnings to @SlackHQ for the Slack Code launch.
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Rab Memari (@rabmemari) reported@chriskim_dev @Teknium No problem. I think its more of a @SlackHQ problem, but happy to check if I can fix it in Hermes and push a PR
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Sammie (@nexgencoded) reported@SlackHQ really said what if your coworker wasn't annoying enough?? now you can add an AI coding agent to the group chat @Claude fix this 30 seconds later claude: PR opened greg from accounting: why is there a PR claude: I have no idea who Greg is....
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GosuCoder (@GosuCoder) reportedSlackbot legit might be one of my favorite uses of AI outside of coding. I use this thing constantly to find past conversations, summarize entire chats, help write responses, look for things I might be forgetting, or even look up past context on a decision or topic. Seriously @SlackHQ this legit improves my life
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Georg S. Kuklick (@downtownberlin) reported@SlackHQ @linear Then fix your MCP server!
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KRYTOS (@CSO_Krytos) reported@Cal_Irvine @thdxr @SlackHQ threads are terrible
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Rodrigo Berriel (@rodrigoberriel) reported@thdxr @SlackHQ unbelievable right? terrible ux
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Dhruv (@dhruv2038) reportedIs @SlackHQ broken today - I am using Focus mode - seems like the emoticons are breaking.
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JM (@merklejosh) reported@SlackHQ There seems to be a bug in your Version 4.50.140 app (Mac) where if you have open a New message and you try to then click in the Search bar, you can't – it just flashes. Can you please fix this. It's very annoying. Thanks!
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Jason Alco (@jason_alco) reported@SlackHQ Our team loves the platform, but we really need to fix the mark unread feature. It’s been broken for years now. First, you should be able to mark a channel as unread without opening the channel and selecting a message. Second, half the time marking a message as unread doesn’t work. I have to go message by message, trying over and over until one works. Please fix this, thank you 🫠
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Taha Tesser (@TahaTesser) reported@KhalidWarsa @SlackHQ Because each workspace has own login. Even if you login on one device. You cannot sync all those workspaces under one account on another device
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Rahul Chetia (@ayoImNotTrippin) reported@SlackHQ there’s a widespread issue with slack today. Not sure about Mac but my entire team with windows seems to be impacted. Slack becomes irresponsive on windows a few minutes in. Tried ‘repair’ and force close, but no help there. We are using app in our phones to communicate.
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✩°｡⋆⸜ (@lenvioux) reportedHEY @SlackHQ WHY I DIDNT GET NOTIFICATIONS neither on my phone for every conversation i had?!?! nor on my laptop app… unless i checked it every minutes?!!!? HELP
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Kurush Dubash (@kurushdubash) reported@SlackHQ can you please revert your most recent update, it is so bad. This is terrible for anyone who is inbox 0. Please don't make me use Teams
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Sam Pullara (@sampullara) reported@thdxr @SlackHQ No one wants all replies to show up in the channel. It is a terrible defauu.
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mayberaigan (@mayberayyy) reported@SlackHQ your app notifications are glitching, please fix it
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PatrickUllrich (@ItsPatrickU) reported@karrisaarinen @linear @SlackHQ Linear coding agent when? 👀 currently handing it off to another service but be nice to skip the extra step.