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Slack has been experiencing some frustrating issues for many on Thursday, including some of us here at The Verge. For me, some messages just wouldn’t send. Since I first published this post, though, things have seemingly returned to normal for me — messages have been sending without issue.
Slack’s status page says there’s an outage, classifying the problem as people having “trouble loading Slack.” (Slack loads fine for me.) Slack’s status page first posted that there was an issue at 1:17PM ET.
When asked, the company provided this statement about the outage:
Our teams are aware and are investigating the issue. We know how important it is for people to stay connected and we are working hard to get everyone back up and running. For the…