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Trello suffers major outage due to database optimization

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Trello, a project management tool owned by Atlassian, has been experiencing significant outages for over 24 hours, with users unable to view comments on cards. Atlassian's status page indicated that the issues stemmed from a database optimization process. The incident has raised questions about the role of AI in the error and whether recent employee layoffs might have contributed to the problem. AI

IMPACT This outage highlights potential risks in the operational stability of widely used productivity tools, even those that may incorporate AI.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a product outage for a widely used tool, not a core AI development.

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Trello suffers major outage due to database optimization

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    For over 24 hours now # trello has been having some major issues - the comments on cards aren't showing. That's a pretty big part of what Trello does. Atlassian

    For over 24 hours now # trello has been having some major issues - the comments on cards aren't showing. That's a pretty big part of what Trello does. Atlassian's status page says they were "optimizing" [sic - come on, you're supposed to be an Australian company] a database. I wo…

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