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Lasting just about half a workday â the very first workday of a new year â the outage was perfectly timed for a captive audience. For the first 90 minutes, remote workers could shrug it off and make jokes on Twitter. But gradually, it became clear that this was, in fact, really inconvenient, so it was time to resort to a hodgepodge of old-fashioned texting and email and emergency Google Chat triage setups. But â crucially â before we could all figure out that maybe these workarounds were just as good, Slack returned. And everyone fell right back into wasting the afternoon throwing emoji reactions onto missed Slack posts and being annoyed by Slack alerts and just generally pretending the whole thing never happened. From âgood riddance!â to âIâm so relieved youâre back so I donât have to think about making real changes,â all in a few hours. ....