Slack is having issues — it’s not your internet

Slack experienced issues on Wednesday morning. 

Your colleagues aren’t ignoring you — Slack has been experiencing issues today.

Many users of the popular workplace communication platform were unable to log in or message for multiple hours on Wednesday.

At 10:27 a.m. ET, Slack said it was “investigating reports of trouble connecting or loading Slack.”

“We’re still working to restore functionality to affected Slack features but have also discovered some workflows may also be experiencing issues,” Slack said in a follow-up message.

“We appreciate your patience as we sort this out and will be back with another update soon,” it added.

Slack’s system page listed an “incident” status on multiple features, including the platform’s login and messaging.

A screenshot of Slack’s Status dashboard showing issues on Wednesday morning.

Slack users also reported issues to third-party outage-tracking website DownDetector, which saw a spike in reports.

A screenshot of third-party outage-tracking website DownDetector showing a spike in incident reports for Slack. 

“Our teams are aware and are investigating the issue,” a Slack spokesperson told B-17. “For the latest updates, please keep an eye on status.slack.com.”

Slack and Microsoft Teams are two of the top workplace communication platforms used by many companies to communicate quickly. In 2022, Slack said that 77 of Fortune 100 companies used its platform.

Hailed as an “email killer,” Slack went public in 2019 and was acquired by Salesforce for $27.7 billion in a deal that closed in 2021.