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Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

69 points by abatilo 7 days ago | 29 comments

Are other people unable to load anything in slack all of a sudden? Status page hasn't been updated for anything yet

Mandatum 7 days ago

Whichever Salesforce employee has their bonus tied to this being declared an incident and not an outage; fuck you.

This has affected critical, operational processes which YOUR sales and marketing teams use in Case Studies[0][1][2] and documentation[3][4].

[0] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/react-veterans...

[1] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/veterans-affai...

[2] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/mta-new-york-c...

[3] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/productivity/why-every-bus...

[4] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/productivity/standard-oper...?

smcleod 6 days ago

I would not recommend basing your core business capabilities around an external chat app with no redundancy. Outages happen and always will.

cyberge99 7 days ago

If your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.

peterkos 7 days ago

"Users experiencing issues connecting to Slack and unable to load threads" - https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa

smcleod 7 days ago

Slack, Fastmail, Claude, Github - all seem to be having intermittent outages and are randomly logging people out.

rdm_blackhole 6 days ago

I got logged out of Fastmail as well. Do we have any ideas as to what happened?

mvdtnz 7 days ago

I could really do without a Fastmail outage today.

TriangleEdge 7 days ago

https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

javierluraschi 7 days ago

https://slack-status.com/ -- no incidents reported at 3:33PM PST

zamadatix 7 days ago

The "real" status tracker disagrees: https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

make3 7 days ago

Slack, Fortnite and Counter-Strike all at the same time somehow according to the site :) Who knows if there's a link

javierluraschi 7 days ago

My bad, thanks!

smcleod 7 days ago

major incident acknowledged https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa

nitwit005 7 days ago

It shows one now.

przemub 7 days ago

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fiatpandas 7 days ago

I'm seeing messages double post for some reason, both ones I send and ones from my coworkers. The 2nd message fails the first time. And the occasional connection error.

borland 7 days ago

Yes, slack is intermittently down for me and the rest of my company. It's intermittently losing messages, failing to load new ones, and showing error pages :-(

thehours 7 days ago

Yes, briefly for me. I also lost access to Fastmail.

MostlyAmiable 7 days ago

Yup, I just checked in multiple workspaces and I was unable to connect in all of them.

wave100 7 days ago

Yeah, just ran into a few blips. Seems to load intermittently.

javierluraschi 7 days ago

Yes, getting a bunch of retry and messages failing to send.

7 days ago

JustSkyfall 7 days ago

Yep, I'm getting random issues too

ansonhw 7 days ago

was down (messages not going through) for me, then web was ok, then all went down, now back up

ansonhw 7 days ago

not sure why i didn't see any status updates

ansonhw 7 days ago

down again for me

tptacek 7 days ago

It's not just you.

flowardnut 7 days ago

uptime of 100% -- time to update that number :p

alook 7 days ago

I laughed out loud at that 100 number too when I was reading statuspage :P

markerz 7 days ago

Yes

seungwoolee518 7 days ago

Yeah! now I'm Learning How TCP Network is Work. trying to keep sending Messages twice.