Slack was down for a few hours today. It has now returned online. The original story appears below.
Slack is down so I had no choice but to look up from my monitor and wonder... wait a sec... who are these people sitting all around me?? My COLLEAGUES? We are all corralled in a physical space to talk to each other in the face, and not just with dancing emoji? Neat!
SEE ALSO:Beware! Slack leaks are the new email leaksSlack reported outages around 9:30 E.T. on Wednesday. Messages failed to send, and Slack couldn't connect to the internet.
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Down Detector showed outages across the East Coast of the U.S., some other parts of the U.S., and in Europe.
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Credit: screenshot: down detectorSlack was still working on the outage as of 10 a.m. ET. And the world noticed — Slack was also trending on Twitter.
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Credit: screenshot: TwitterIt was a reflective free-for-all on Twitter, naturally.
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Slack last went down in May, and work similarly came to a blissful standstill.
Guess we'll have to talk business IRL for now. What a concept!
UPDATE 6/27/2018, 11:15 a.m. ET:
Slack says it is "still in rocky waters."
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UPDATE 6/27/2018, 12:40 p.m. ET:
Slack restored service around 12:30 p.m. ET. Thank goodness — our throats were getting sore from all that yapping.
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