Something in-between. I'm the only engineer in my position. The fear is an unnoticed fire. A lot of things are monitored but a few things still require someone to take a quick glance at them at least once a day.
If I were you I'd try to add some friction to that process. Make it harder to access work stuff during vacation, it should help to decrease the bad habit.
As someone else suggested, I've been thinking about uninstalling Slack during holidays. But in lieu of another employee to share my responsibilities with, any potential problem grows the longer it takes before I'm aware of it.
Funny, I always grew to like the damn app more when I was using it on vacation. Usually just to reread some old thread or make sure I didn’t miss something. Now I don’t use it at all however, and at least that part of my life is going nicely.
There are to many damn chat apps, someone make a memey ffs.
The only people who should be allowed make these kinds of criticisms on platforms that go down infrequently when compared to the industry standard are folks whose own apps and platforms never, ever go down. Which is to say, nobody really has a leg to stand on in this regard.
I just saw an e-mail in my inbox this morning that started with “Slack, one of our main tools for communication and collaboration, is currently unavailable…” and ended with “In the meantime, we recommend using Teams as a workaround.”
Once again: centralized non-e2ee systems like Slack and Discord are a liability, not the least of which is because of downtime. (The DM logs being mined by an acquirer or intruder is another.)
Patch out the phone-home Segment spyware and selfhost a Mattermost, or a Zulip, or a Discourse (for non-real-time) for your team.
Selfhost a Gitea and a Drone.
It's more simple than you think, and you can backup and restore it onto a new hosted VM in minutes.
> Patch out the phone-home Segment spyware and selfhost a Mattermost,
Just to clarify, by patching out, all you need is to disable a config setting: https://docs.mattermost.com/manage/telemetry.html. It's not like you have to modify the code or anything more intrusive.
Another fan of Mattermost here. Four or five years w/o outage. Maintenance is moving to a new VM every 6mo. Cost is roughly $120/yr. And we can have clients click into our chat w/o requiring them to make accounts with third parties.
I really hate the: For support with CompanyA make account to use service provided by CompanyB to contact A.
Every time I have to use a Slack/Discord to reach a company I'm spam/alert bombed all over again - triple annoying.
Bigger, heavier, requires more resources to set up, maintain, and use. On the other hand it's more stable, mature, has more features and integrations, and I'd guess more secure. Having run both I'd recommend defaulting to Forgejo[0] or Gitea unless your requirements steer you towards Gitlab.
[0]: Fork of Gitea, discussed here previously. Recall that Gitea is itself a fork of Gogs!
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If you do bring your work phone. Log yourself out of everything as well.
More friction, less problems :)
There are to many damn chat apps, someone make a memey ffs.
> A modern emergency response center housed on a reliable digital platform ensures teams are ready for emergency response at a moment’s notice.
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Seems like you just googled some reliability article to make this comment? Lol
You can become burned-out using any tool, and even without using any tool.
Patch out the phone-home Segment spyware and selfhost a Mattermost, or a Zulip, or a Discourse (for non-real-time) for your team.
Selfhost a Gitea and a Drone.
It's more simple than you think, and you can backup and restore it onto a new hosted VM in minutes.
For some companies self-hosting might make sense. For others, the overhead isn’t worth it.
Just to clarify, by patching out, all you need is to disable a config setting: https://docs.mattermost.com/manage/telemetry.html. It's not like you have to modify the code or anything more intrusive.
I really hate the: For support with CompanyA make account to use service provided by CompanyB to contact A.
Every time I have to use a Slack/Discord to reach a company I'm spam/alert bombed all over again - triple annoying.
[0]: Fork of Gitea, discussed here previously. Recall that Gitea is itself a fork of Gogs!