I spend alot of time on Discord on multiple servers. With this outage, I couldn't access any of the servers I'm involved in, which gives me some time to look at open source self hosted alternatives:
edit: This is a site I'm developing that's meant to be be a place for topical conversation about anything interesting. The main site is of course https://sqwok.im, feel free to ask me any questions about it, thanks.
I have to say, as someone that clicked this link that I found a few things you might want to consider before plugging again:
1. No disclaimer that you are involved with the site
2. Maybe talk about something other than furries in the room that you link
3. Maybe link to a landing page with more info on how to...do anything other than talk about furries?
I should have stated that! The conversations can tend to flow in abstract ways, but that's how chat sort of works? The general rule is that it's Ok so long as it comes back on topic, with the option to just create a new post. Will be adding an easier way to do that soon.
> Engineering has root-caused this issue to a Google Cloud component called "Traffic Director" which is responsible for configuring our load balancing layer. In its malfunction, it caused our internal load balancing layer to not have a valid configuration, which caused a loss of availability of the API. Engineering took measures to remediate by moving to alternate proxy configuration that did not use traffic director. It took us a bit to switch to using a different load balancing topology, but we were able to do so to restore service before Traffic Director issues were resolved.
> The issue with Traffic Director has been confirmed to be caused by a recent release; the release has been rolled back and customers can now start using Traffic Director. We have identified a probable root cause and will be publishing an Incident Report within the next several days.
I don't think so, and Wikipedia is back for me. But that was my first thought too when I suddenly couldn't get to either Wikipedia or Discord. Both are places where Russians might be getting their own outside information.
An honest status page is a breath of fresh air. Slack and AWS (the two I'm most impacted by) always say they're 100% up every month. When they're clearly not.
> Oncall Engineering continues to investigate the root cause of this issue. _We have engaged our partners and are preparing contingencies to restore service._
Well, I don't see that often the last sentence, and honestly it doesn't sounds good at all.
https://revolt.chat/ - very similar to discord
https://rocket.chat/ - more similar to slack than discord
https://fosscord.com/ - feels a bit incomplete, I had a hard time using their fosscord instance