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

According to nan company, 77 of nan Fortune 100 usage Slack messaging software. There are overmuch 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 too impacted."

In a bid of updates since nan 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 too acquisition issues erstwhile attempting to log in," nan institution wrote. "Thank you for your continued patience arsenic we proceed investigating. We'll beryllium pursuing up pinch further updates arsenic they spell 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 nan 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 overmuch updates arsenic soon arsenic they're available."

This communicative is ongoing and will beryllium updated.

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