Server down earlier. Thoughts on having some form of "backchannel" communications?
Server down earlier. Thoughts on having some form of "backchannel" communications?
Hello everyone!
So earlier tonight the server seemed to be down for a while. What are everyone's thoughts on coming up with some type of alternative independent back-channel communication method to get short-form updates about outages and other important community updates (community as in for our server, not a lemmy community).
Obviously this ultimately depends on how the admins and mods of this instance feel about this; how willing are they to invest time into setting that up if its something that will not be run and modded by us but by them, and how willing they are to actually use it if it does come to pass.
I am thinking something like mastodon is quite good for this task, but of course if anyone has any suggestions or other ideas please share them. Let's get a discussion going, if this seems like a good idea to you write your thoughts about what you think is the best way to go about it, and if it seems like a not so good idea share those thoughts and reasonings too!
Feels kinda weird to have a secondary communication channel for an actual communication channel, not to mention the "burden" to maintain it (and if it's a two way communication channel, such as mastodon, the noise you will get from users when there is an actual problem).
I feel a status page is more appropriate for this.
Yeap makes sense. Status page sounds like a good idea