Overview
- Slack users across the U.S. and globally reported issues with messaging, logging in, and accessing workspaces starting around 10:30 a.m. ET.
- The outage affected thousands of users, with over 3,000 reports logged on DownDetector at its peak.
- Slack acknowledged the disruption and stated its engineers are working to restore core functionalities, including messaging and workflows.
- Some features, such as viewing existing messages, remained partially functional during the outage, while emoticon reactions and threads faced disruptions.
- The outage highlighted Slack's critical role in workplace communication, with users turning to alternative tools like email and Google Docs.