
There were issues with sending messages, loading the channel, making calls, transferring files, and many of the users even reported that they could not log in to their slack accounts. The companies hope to be better able to compete against Microsoft, which is a threat to both of them. Slack went down at around 10 AM ET on Monday, and the users started reporting about the problem. The outage comes about a month after said it would acquire Slack for $27.7 billion. Here’s the latest word from Slack: Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. No other details were provided on the cause of the outage. More complaints rolled in as the sun hit the West coast and there were still outages four hours after it began in New York City. At 7:15AM PST, the San Francisco, Calif.-based Slack confirmed users were having trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack. And in September, Microsoft services had an outage that lasted for five hours. In August, Zoom went down briefly just as many students were beginning the school year at home. Google went down briefly in December, with people in several countries briefly unable to access their Gmail accounts, watch YouTube videos or get to their online documents during an outage Monday. Internet service outages are not uncommon, are usually resolved relatively swiftly and are only rarely the result of hacking or other intentional mischief. We fell back to IRC and an internally-developed IM/conferencing solution.

Slack said that people should check for updates. Unknown root cause, which saddens me - I wish theyd tell us. At 12:30 p.m., service was still sporadic and Slack said the outage was ongoing, but that some users may begin to see improvement. Reports on outage-tracking website Down Detector also indicated Peloton. Eastern time and disrupted service in the U.S., Germany, India, the U.K., Japan and elsewhere. Slack told Insider its 'teams are aware of and are investigating the issue,' and the issue was resolved later on Tuesday.
