Slack has now acknowledged the issues and is investigating the cause. | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge
Slack, the workplace chat app, is having some issues this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. Reports began spiking on DownDetector at around 5AM ET and the service’s status dashboard acknowledged the issues with a post at 5:35AM ET. It notes that “Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages in Slack,” and says that the company is investigating the issue.
Slack elevated the status to an “outage” about 30 minutes later, at 5:57AM ET:
Slack experiencing an outage across the app. Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages, using workflows and various other actions in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.
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