Slack is down, reporting outages throughout messaging app

Slack, the extensively used office messaging app, went down Wednesday in a widespread outage that left a few of its customers unable to speak on the platform.

On the app’s assist middle web site, Slack mentioned, “We have acquired suggestions that Slack is having some bother and we’re investigating. Please go to Slack Standing to see the newest updates.”

Slack standing

At 10:27 a.m. Jap time, the standing tracker reported that customers had been having bother utilizing or loading Slack. 

At about 1 p.m. ET, the positioning mentioned that the corporate was “nonetheless working to revive performance to affected Slack options similar to sending messages, workflows, threads and different API-related options.”

Slack outage: What to know

Slack informed CBS MoneyWatch that its “groups are conscious and are investigating the problem” and directed customers to remain alert to updates on standing.slack.com.

On the peak of the outage, greater than 3,000 customers reported they could not entry the platform, in accordance with the web site DownDetector. Some providers seemed to be coming again on-line by mid-morning Wednesday, together with group and direct messaging in addition to emoticon reactions.

It was not instantly clear what had prompted the outage. 

The Salesforce-owned messaging platform is extensively used throughout world workspaces, with greater than 200,000 paid prospects and each day energetic customers in over 150 international locations, in accordance with the corporate.

— It is a growing story. Please verify again for updates. 

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