It's not just you. Slack is indeed having a wobbly day, leaving people unable to message each other as usual.
For the past three or so hours, the Salesforce-owned IRC-like chat app has suffered a partial outage affecting users' ability to login and converse. "Something's not quite right," as the biz put it about its degraded functionality.
Slack can be used for fun and work, particularly in this remote-slash-hybrid office era, with about 40 million daily users and more than 750,000 organizations signed up. Here at El Reg, we didn't even notice any major problems with our workspace, though thousands of netizens have hit DownDetector.com with complaints of crappy service, and judging from angry reader emails, y'all had problems with the system, too.
"Slack has been tits-up for nearly two hours and you haven't got a pun-filled rant about it?" one fan thundered to us earlier. "Why am I even reading your site any more?"
Sorry, we were too busy watching ourselves on Stephen Colbert. We didn't even get a chance to put on a flame-proof suit.
It all kicked off around 0730 PT (1530 UTC), when on its status page, Slack acknowledged: "We're investigating reports of trouble connecting or loading Slack, we'll provide another update once we have news to share."
By 0800 PT, the biz said it was in the process of fixing whatever is up with its stack: "We're still working to restore functionality to affected Slack features but have also discovered some workflows may also be experiencing issues. We appreciate your patience as we sort this out."
At 1100 PT, as we were typing like madmen to get this story out, Slack admitted it remains scratching its head:
We're still looking into the cause of the issue and working on restoring functionality to affected features such as workflows, sending messages, threads and API-related features. Users may also continue to experience issues when attempting to log-in. We'll provide new information as soon as it's available.
Consider this an internet snow day. As one netizen put it on DownDetector, "My boss is working from home ... so I should slack off and study since she can't see me."
"I'll cut them some Slack," quipped another.
We'll let you know more as it happens...
Source: The register