After a major outage and then hours of issues, Slack is back up and running as per normal.
“Slack’s status pageexplained.
The outage first hit the messaging and collaboration service at around 11 am ET / 4pm GMT .
This affected TechRadar directly as we and our sibling publications all use Slack to communicate and collaborate.
Read on for coverage of this big outage as it happened and as we experienced it.
What is Slack anyway?
Slackis an ubiquitous cloud-basedcommunication platformused by millions of businesses of all sizes around the world.
Yeah so Slack is definitely down and I’m kinda flying blind with no easy contact with my colleagues.
Ok now he’s just told me his Slack is down.
So yeah, this isn’t good for remote collaboration.
Usually when outages happen they don’t always directly affect us at TechRadar.
But we all use Slack to collaborate remotely and across multiple countries and continents.
No bad thing, as Google’s G Suite is a rather robust set of tools.
Equally, this isn’t exactly optimal.
Users may also experience issues when attempting to log-in.
Thank you for your continued patience as we continue investigating.
We’ll be following up with further updates as they become available.”
“Heres how we’re coping.
“Slack is where all real-time communication happens within tens of thousands of businesses including.
Wonder how quickly I’ll get sick of seening the image below?
Slack is still borked for me.
We had one inJanuary 2021, one inFebruary 2022,March 2022andJuly 2022and the last one was inJuly 2023.
Users may also experience issues when attempting to log-in.
We appreciate your continued patience.
More updates will be shared as soon as possible.”
Seems like the reports of Slack outages on Downdetector have peaked.
We’ll be back with more updates as soon as they’re available.”
Still that’s handy to check the status of work as a snapshot before the outage hit.
For what it’s worth, I’m quite a fan of the Slack app on iOS.
It’s near, works well and feels decently integrated with Apple’s mobile platform.
According to Desire and Josie, Slack is back for both of them…
I’m not so lucky.
But my mobile version of Slack is now fine.
No official word from Slack’s status page that it’s up again.
But looks like we’re coming to the end of this outage.
Though those could be famous last words, so to speak.
Emoji reactions to messages don’t seem to be working, however.
My colleagues are reporting they have access to Slack on desktop on both Windows and macOS.
Mildly frustrating, I have to say.
We’ll be back with more updates as soon as they’re available."
According toDowndetector, there were also outages at Amazon Web Services, Instagram Microsoft Copilot, among others.
Still no desktop Slack login for me.
Pretty sure I’m not doing anything odd on my end…
This is all I’m seeing when I attempt to log into Slack.
Thanks for sticking with us as we continue to work towards a fix.
Well keep you posted as soon we have an update."
But with communication a tad stifled it’s hard to tell.
Users may also continue to experience issues when attempting to log-in.
Well provide new information as soon as its available."
Still no joy on desktop login for me on Slack.
My boss, Marc Mclaren has got back into the desktop version of Slack.
We apologize for the continued trouble."
Some users may still reproduce symptoms such as issues loading their workspaces.
Our work is still ongoing to restore affected backend services to returning functionality to impacted features."
That functionality has yet to return on the desktop, even with a few app restarts.
Slack’s outage certainly created quite the storm today, that’s for sure.
Slack is fully up and running.
So everyone can breathe easy… and get back to work.
