- Slack is experiencing a global outage that is plaguing its app and website
- Problems appeared around 12:30 a.m. ET, but the cause is not yet known
Slack is unavailable to thousands of users around the world, preventing people from communicating with fellow colleagues, potential clients, and other companies.
Issues appeared around 12:30 a.m. ET, plaguing the app and website.
The messaging app has become a staple for many businesses — about 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies rely on the service.
While the issue is unknown, Slack shows an “incident” when logging in for some users on the status dashboard.
Slack is unavailable to thousands of users worldwide, preventing people from communicating with fellow colleagues
Launched in 2014, Slack has gradually become the world champion in the race for professional messaging platforms.
“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,” the company explains on its website.
“People can work in dedicated spaces called channels that bring the right people and information together.”
Slack has over 20 million active users as of 2023, but the company saw a huge increase in 2020.
Between March 10 and March 25, the number of concurrent users rose from ten million to 12.5 million.
Slack has become a staple for many companies, especially as many have moved to a hybrid system
The platform is now popular with big companies such as Goldman Sachs and Comcast Grubhub, which have more than $3 billion in revenue.
DownDetector monitors online outages and shows that users in the US, UK, Canada, Asia and South America are experiencing issues.
The outage affects channel and thread loading, along with the ability to send messages.
Slack users took to social media to see if others were experiencing issues, and unlike other outages, such as those on Facebook or X, many welcomed the “blackout.”
A user of X (formally Twitter) posted: “Slack is down. I guess that means I can’t work today.’
Another user, Jack Dickson, joked, “Slack is down (or I’m fired).”
This is the second messaging platform outage in a month.
In July, the app seemed to crash just like Thursday.