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Slack is now back online after an hour-long outage that prevented users around the world from messaging each other.
The go-to app for workplace messaging appeared to be crashing this morning, with more than 5,000 issues registered in the UK alone.
According to Down Detector, the problems started around 10am BST and affected users worldwide.
Just before 11am BST, Slack revealed that there were issues with its messaging, connections, workflow, and search features.
While the reason for the outage remains unclear, 71 percent of those who reported problems said they couldn’t send messages, 19 percent couldn’t receive them, and 10 percent had problems with the app.
It is the favorite messaging app for many people around the world, but it seems that Slack crashed this morning
According to Down Detector, the problems started around 10am BST and affected users worldwide
Users in Manchester, London, Cardiff and Cambridge are among those in the UK, while 500 others in the US also reported problems.
Slack is an instant messaging platform popular with businesses around the world.
“Slack makes it easy to get in touch with your colleagues – you can message and collaborate with anyone inside or outside your organization just like you personally would,” it explains on its website.
“People can work in dedicated spaces called channels that bring the right people and information together.”
Many users flocked to Twitter to voice their complaints about the outage, while others jokingly asked if they could skip work.
“Slack is down. Can I have a day off?’ one wrote, while another added, “I love that the only thing worth taking me back to Twitter was to check if Slack wasn’t working (it is, by the way).”
Another chimed in: “Oh great, Slack crashed/won’t let me send messages. Astonishing.’
It was revealed earlier today that when users tried to send a message on Slack, an error would pop up saying “Slack was unable to send this message.”
Attempts to ‘try again’ also failed and senders likely received the same error message.
Many users have taken to Twitter to voice their complaints about the Slack issues
Users in Manchester, London, Cardiff and Cambridge are among those who have had problems
It currently seems that when users try to send a message on Slack, an error pops up saying “Slack was unable to send this message”
However, many users claimed that they could still tell when another person was typing something, even if they couldn’t receive it.
‘#Slack is down. Just “typing…” No messages sent or received,” one person wrote.
Meanwhile, another added, “Well, the slack is gone, my status has changed from active to absent like 10 times, I thought I was going crazy, but it seems I’m still sane.”
Slack’s monitoring system picked up on the messaging errors we’re dealing with today and shared that “something isn’t right.”
At 10:35 a.m. it said, “Users may experience issues sending messages in Slack. We’ll investigate and let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.”
While the problems were initially limited to messaging, Slack later discovered the other problems with the connections, workflow, and search features.
At 10:57 a.m. Slack then said, “Slack has a glitch in the app. Users may experience issues sending messages, using workflows, and various other actions in Slack. We’ll investigate and let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.”
Now Slack claims its site is up and running and all issues have been resolved.