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Slack is experiencing a worldwide outage affecting the app and website
The issues appeared around 12:30 p.m. ET, but the cause is still unknown
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Slack is down for thousands of users around the world, preventing people from communicating with colleagues, potential clients, and other businesses.
The issues surfaced around 12:30 p.m. ET and are plaguing the app and website.
The messaging app has become a staple for many businesses: About 80 percent of the Fortune 100 companies trust the service.
While the issue is unknown, Slack shows an “incident” with some users’ login in their status panel.
Slack is down for thousands of users around the world, preventing people from communicating with other colleagues.
Launched in 2014, Slack has gradually become the world champion in the race for professional messaging platforms.
Slack has over 20 million active users as of 2023, but the company saw a massive increase in 2020.
Between March 10 and 25, concurrent users increased from ten million to 12.5 million.
The platform is now popular with major companies like 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 is affecting the loading of channels and threads, along with the ability to send messages.
Slack has become a staple for many businesses, especially since many have moved to a hybrid system.
Slack users took to social media to see if others were experiencing issues, and unlike other outages, such as those that hit Facebook or X, many welcomed the ‘outage’.
One One X (formerly Twitter) user posted: ‘Slack is down. I guess that means I can’t work today.
Another user, Jack Dickson, quipped: “Slack doesn’t work (or I got fired).”
Thousands of users worldwide affected by Slack outage, business communication severely disrupted