What is happening here? Am I reading this correctly? These are outages on a massive scale, affecting several international web services and infrastructure?
Those graphs are really misleading. All of the services look severly affected [0], though the number of reports differs significantly from service to service.
I would expect the graphs to be normalized against a noise floor of how many people report the service being down "most of the time."
(And looking into it, indeed they are — looks like, in the detail view of a chart, there's a long-term weighted-running-average "baseline" value on the chart's data-points. See e.g. the dotted blue line on https://downdetector.com/status/google/. And the summary view seems to normalize its charts by their baseline.)
Does HN feel particularly slow to other people today? It usually loads for me in <500ms, and page loads are taking ~5 seconds now when other websites are completely fine.
Over the course of the last year I have been working on building a personal zettlekasten. I started in Notion, making several relational databases. However, after experiencing some down time, I decided to switch to Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) it's a much, much better program, does not have slowdown issues on my mac, is fully cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and has a sync system that works pretty seamlessly. Not to mention that the files are all plain markdown and stored locally.
Totally - you can also easily sync it with your own service, if you don't want to use their sync service. The flexibility is definitely a huge selling point.
No it doesn't which is what is keeping me from moving from Notion to it. It's really clean and fast but all the hacks to get access to your notes on mobile (other apps that sort of work with the obsidian data structure) are a turn-off right now. When they do get mobile apps out then I really want to try to move to it.
The backlinks functionality is a little more hacked on than the built-in Obsidian tooling but I find most of the other editing tools and extensions to be superior. Having my knowledge database be edited in my normal text editor is easier and more powerful for me.
> For the last couple hours, Notion has been down. This is related to some difficulties Amazon Web Services is experiencing today. As of right now, our engineering team is all hands on deck working to restore service. We're confident these issues will be resolved soon, but in the meantime I'm so sorry for any problems or inconvenience this has caused. I know this is not ideal as everyone returns from break, and we'll be thoroughly investigating how to prevent outages like this in the future.
Notion is about the only service today out of many other major platforms (see: https://downdetector.com) that cared to email me about the downtime. I’ve been a happy Notion user since about a year ago and this is probably the only one time I have experienced major downtime as far as I can remember.
Is there a way around the issues that cause service interruption? I was using self-hosted until my ISP proved itself to be unreliable, and moved to notion hoping that another host would have an easier time. Same issues - i need to update my CRM and am basically locked out of it until notion figures out the outage problem. is there another similar project that is al little more fault tolerant?
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0: https://status.notion.so/
https://downdetector.com/status/indeed/
Slack: 16167 reports. Zoom: 224 reports. Google: 220 reports.
[0] https://i.imgur.com/KeIlwuV.png
(And looking into it, indeed they are — looks like, in the detail view of a chart, there's a long-term weighted-running-average "baseline" value on the chart's data-points. See e.g. the dotted blue line on https://downdetector.com/status/google/. And the summary view seems to normalize its charts by their baseline.)
It’s very good and the pace of their development is impressive.
I don’t use the sync. Didn’t want a cloud element. All local-only for me!
Does it have a mobile app? This is what’s keeping me on Notion for the time being.
Obsidian is a very neat tool but I'd generally preferred using VS Code. I've used roughly the same flow here: https://kortina.nyc/essays/suping-up-vs-code-as-a-markdown-n...
The backlinks functionality is a little more hacked on than the built-in Obsidian tooling but I find most of the other editing tools and extensions to be superior. Having my knowledge database be edited in my normal text editor is easier and more powerful for me.
( joking, but.. )
> For the last couple hours, Notion has been down. This is related to some difficulties Amazon Web Services is experiencing today. As of right now, our engineering team is all hands on deck working to restore service. We're confident these issues will be resolved soon, but in the meantime I'm so sorry for any problems or inconvenience this has caused. I know this is not ideal as everyone returns from break, and we'll be thoroughly investigating how to prevent outages like this in the future.