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Does your org have a backup plan when your main communication systems go down?

#discuss #productivity
Ben Halpern
Ben Halpern
A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. He/Him.
 
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Slack is down right now. I'm curious how folks deal with that situation.

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Glenn Carremans •

We have a company whatsapp group.
Not an official bakcup plan though as we post random things in there too.

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Jack Lowrie • • Edited

We fell back to email for coordination, with Zoom standups for this slack outage. Slack going down is a bummer, but for us, Trello going down is a more significant speedbump.

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Shaiju T • • Edited

So this teaches us, no matter how big the company is or how strong the engineering team, even Google faces it. Everyone has to deal with down times.

By the way We switch to Mail Groups.

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