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I was OOO yesterday — catch me up on the #incident-payments channel and the launch thread I was tagged in.
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#incident-payments (47 new messages)
- Root cause found. Maria flagged a Stripe webhook timeout at 2:14pm; Dev confirmed it was a retry-queue backlog, now drained.
- Status. Incident marked resolved at 4:40pm. No customer refunds required — only checkout was delayed ~6 min.
- Action item for you. Priya asked you to review the postmortem doc before Friday's sync.
Launch thread (you were @-mentioned)
- Date locked. GTM confirmed the Q3 launch ships July 8; eng signed off on the feature freeze.
- Open question. Sam asked whether you want the announcement posted to #general or #customers first.
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