OUTAGES, issues, and errors impacted Slack and its online users when they had trouble accessing the app.
Hundreds of Slack users complained that there were technical difficulties where their messages were lagging, or wouldn’t send at all.
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Is Slack down?
Hundreds of Slack users in the United States and the UK reported that Slack was not working for them on July 26, 2022.
The problems spiked between 8.30am to 10am that Tuesday morning.
Users attempted to get to the bottom of why errors persisted, but Slack did not give a reason for the outages.
Over 250 reports of Slack-related issues were reported to Downdetector.
The problems that plagued Slack netizens appear similar to the outages that took place several months earlier on Tuesday, February 22.
According to the aforementioned site, at least 49 percent of complainers are experiencing issues with the app’s servers.
Another 30 percent are struggling to access the app, while 20 percent complained that they were unable to exchange messages.
A live outage map showed that the issues predominantly occurred in northern America.
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Statistics show that the outages began around 8.30 a.m. EST (1.30 pm GMT).
You can check the status of Slack on the platform’s website, here.
Other online platforms including GitHub and Amazon Web Services also appear to be experiencing outages.
What did people say about the Slack outage?
Users took to Twitter to air their complaints about the platform – though many saw the funny side.
One joked: “Slack is down. We’re all free. Run for your lives.”
Another said: “Slack is down. I wonder how many people will sign on to their workstations this morning thinking they got fired”.
And a third wrote: “Since Slack is down, does that mean I can play video games early today?”
Slack has not yet acknowledged the outage on its official Twitter page.
The firm’s service status page says that everything is running smoothly despite evidence to the contrary.
