I recognize the ways in which this is a difficult problem, but it remains frustrating to me that the application isn't capable of providing this information directly to end users. Instead you end up with confusion, missed communication, and occasionally people thinking they've been fired! Surely we can do better.
I am sad to see that our profession hasn't figured out how to make a decent desktop app with local-storage (that continues working at least in minimal fashion when the server is out of commission).
Slack, Teams, they are all similar. Many times I open the Teams window back from a coffee break and I get a blank page. The software can't even detect that it is a blank page being displayed and some progress ball / beach ball whatever.
I say this in the middle of attempting a Tauri desktop app. I am sure my app will have the same problems, but my other options are even worse.
Long time ago, the day I finished my probation period at work was also a multi-hour gmail outage. I got up, couldn't load my email, and had a panic attack for a few minutes before finding out what was going on
