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Yep, there was a Slack outage Monday morning. The company gave a status update about the problem saying, “Some workspaces might be experiencing issues with messages sending and loading.” After approximately 40 minutes of downtime, the service was back up.
Slack updated its status page at 8:30 a.m. PT as the service returned, with the message that people “may be running into trouble accessing their Slack workspaces completely.” The company’s Twitter account also said there would be “slow performance” as the team messaging service comes back online.
In addition to slow performance, some customers may also be running into trouble accessing their Slack channels entirely. We’re digging into this and will be back with more updates soon. https://t.co/ZstseqpFlL
— Slack Status (@SlackStatus) July 29, 2019
Downdetector received more than 2,000 reports of users having problems with Slack. According to the site, the outage started at approximately 7:50 a.m. PT and had a global reach.
Those who depend on Slack for their work weren’t too happy with the outage, especially on a Monday. Many took to Twitter to react to the platform going down.
SLACK IS DOWNQUICK, EVERYONE SEND AN EMAIL
— Kelly Vaughn 🐞 (@kvlly) July 29, 2019
When #slack is down and you’re remote today. pic.twitter.com/Jt6JMv69rG
— Paulina Gallo ✨ (@paulpaultweets) July 29, 2019
@SlackHQ is down… what to do we do now… how did we communicate before this? #slack #downtime #keepcalmandkeepworking pic.twitter.com/0RYmlxOD5e
— Sam Forde (@samjforde) July 29, 2019
At the end of June, Slack suffered a three-hour outage that was due to some of its servers being unavailable.
Originally published on July 29 at 8:15 a.m. PT:Update, 8:19 a.m. PT: Adds Downdetector details. 8:32 a.m. PT: Adds Twitter reactions. 8:53 a.m. PT: Adds details on the end of outage.
