Is Slack Down? Thousands of Users Report Mass Outage: 'Investigation Is Still in Progress'

Slack is down for thousands of users who began reporting problems astir 9:30 a.m. EST to DownDetector.

According to Slack-Status, the messaging package institution is alert of the issues and astatine 10:27 a.m. EST said it is "investigating reports of problem connecting aliases loading Slack, we'll supply different update erstwhile we person news to share."

According to the company, 77 of the Fortune 100 usage Slack messaging software. There are much than 10 cardinal regular users.

Is Slack Still Down?

The institution noted that location are problems "sending and receiving messages, and immoderate threads loading are besides impacted."

In a series of updates since the original post, Slack said that it is moving to reconstruct functionality to affected Slack features specified arsenic sending messages, workflows, threads, and different API-related features.

"Users whitethorn besides acquisition issues erstwhile attempting to log in," the institution wrote. "Thank you for your continued patience arsenic we proceed investigating. We'll beryllium pursuing up pinch further updates arsenic they go available."

At 11:30 a.m. EST says that they are "still moving to reconstruct functionality."

An hr later astir 12:30 p.m. EST, Slack said the rumor was ongoing: "Our investigation is still successful advancement pinch respect to deprecated functionality for Slack features specified arsenic workflows, threads, sending messages, and API-related features. We'll beryllium backmost pinch much updates arsenic soon arsenic they're available."

This communicative is ongoing and will beryllium updated.

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