Downdetector found that more than 10,000 users raked up the issue at one point of time. Thousands of people also reported on Twitter that Slack was not working. The company has confirmed the problem and claimed to have resolved the issue at 12.58 pm ET.
Slack admits outageThe comapny first admitted the outage and said, «Some customers are encountering issues loading messages and channels in Slack. We're actively looking into this, and we'll report back as more information becomes available.»
Slack claims fixing issue soonLater, it claimed that the issue has been resolved, «We've restored full functionality of Slack for all impacted users. Sorry for the trouble, we appreciate your patience today.» This is not the first time that Slack has encountered outage. Earlier in July this year and October last year the program faced a similar problem.
FAQs:Q1. What is Slack? A1. Slack is an instant messaging program, designed by Slack Technologies and owned by Salesforce.Q2. Why Slack in in news for now? A2. Slack faced certain problems and suffered outage on Thursday for some time. The company has confirmed it and claimed that the issue has been resolved.
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