

Me gathering my coworkers since #slack is down: /K9R4cLCuOY We're working on a fix.Ĭut off from their favorite form of chatting with co-workers, some users Slack decided to procrastinate by sharing jokes on another platform: Twitter.

These are connection issues affecting all platforms.

Thanks for the report and sorry about the trouble.
#Slack starts massive outage update
“Our team is on the case and we’ll report back once we have an update to share.” “Some workspaces might be experiencing issues with messages sending and loading,” Slack wrote on their status page. ? Thanks for your patience! The team has rolled out a fix and things should be going back to normal now. We’ve reached out to the company for more details on what caused the outage and will update this story if we hear back. “Thanks so much for bearing with us in the meantime.” “We’re pleased to report that we have the all clear, and all functionality is now restored,” the company wrote on its status page. About an hour later at 8:51 a.m., Slack’s status Twitter account said that its team had implemented a fix for the outage and the service should be back up shortly. Others said they weren’t able to see or send any messages from their coworkers.Īccording to Slack’s status page, the outage began at 7:54 a.m. The issue appeared to be worldwide, and most users said they couldn’t connect to the service at all. Users began to complain that they could not access Slack just before 8:00 a.m. The platform was down for just about an hour, throwing some offices into minor chaos. Popular work-chat program Slack went down on Monday morning - just in time for the start of the work week.
