- Slack is experiencing a worldwide outage plaguing the app and website
- Issues appeared around 12 pm ET, but the cause is not yet known
Slack is down for thousands of users worldwide, preventing people from communicating with fellow collogues, potential clients and other businesses.
Issues appeared around 12pm ET and are plaguing the app and website.
The messaging app has become a staple for many businesses – about 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies rely on the service.
While the problem is unknown, Slack shows an ‘incident’ with logging in for some users on its status dashboard.
Slack is down for thousands of users worldwide, preventing people from communicating with fellow collogues
Launched in 2014, Slack has gradually emerged as the world champion in the race for professional messaging platforms.Â
Slack has over 20 million active users as of 2023, but the company saw a massive increase in 2020.
Between March 10 and March 25, concurrent users rose from ten million to 12.5 million.
The platform is now popular among major companies like Goldman Sachs and Comcast Grubhub, which have more than $3 billion in revenue.
DownDetector monitors online outages and shows users in the US, UK, Canada, Asia and South America are experiencing problems.
The outage is impacting loading for channels and threads, along with the ability to send messages.
