Obviously this sucks and I feel bad for all of those affected, especially the people fixing this or who depended on Slack for their workflow.
But it's hard to overstate the dangers of over-centralisation like this, and I say it as a person who uses Slack professionally.
Maybe running your own Zulip instance isn't as sexy or has the same integrations, but at least you can have a person responsible for fixing it and get status updates, and ultimately: as much as Ops is a dirty word; being able to plan your downtimes can help a _lot_.
Obviously this sucks and I feel bad for all of those affected, especially the people fixing this or who depended on Slack for their workflow.
But it's hard to overstate the dangers of over-centralisation like this, and I say it as a person who uses Slack professionally.
Maybe running your own Zulip instance isn't as sexy or has the same integrations, but at least you can have a person responsible for fixing it and get status updates, and ultimately: as much as Ops is a dirty word; being able to plan your downtimes can help a _lot_.