I’m sure I wasn’t the only person affected by yesterdays Asana outage (due to an AWS issue), and I’m sure it caused many other people much more severe problems than it did me and my team, however not having access to even basic functionality caused us headaches all day long.
Could Asana do more to provide an offline mode for the rare cases where the service does go down?
Although the main power of Asana is of course its ability to sync tasks and connect virtual teams in real time, I have to admit I was a bit surprised yesterday that the desktop app didn’t “fail safe” by showing me a cached version of tasks whilst failing to establish a stable connection to the online services.
I have seen talk of a pseudo-offline mode in this forum post, but this seems quite flaky and only serviceable for planned offline time such as turning on flight mode, not unexpected outages like yesterday.
I would love the Asana app to have a robust and (most importantly) automatic offline mode that syncs all “My tasks” and favourite projects. Even if it doesn’t include large files such as attachments and images, you should still be able to see last-known-good versions of all tasks, due dates, assignees etc. whilst the app syncs everything to the latest version in the background.