Slack Is Down and Social Media Is Celebrating

People clocking in to work Tuesday morning were met with a bit of a hiccup after Slack abruptly stopped working. The workplace service experienced a widespread outage beginning at around 9:25 a.m. ET and lasting well into the morning, grinding work endeavors to a halt and sparking a flurry of posts on social media from those welcoming the interruption.

In a statement shared to its official Twitter account, Slack acknowledged the issues, explaining that "some customer[s] may be experiencing issues with loading Slack." The service promised to provide a status update once we have more information. We're sorry for the disruption." Slack's status page also reflected the outage, a message reading, "Slack is not loading for some users." The outage appeared to affect virtually all components of the service, with everything from messaging to notifications, and even login/SSO marked with the red "outage" indicator on the status page. At the height of the outage, Down Detector, a website that tracks real-time issues and outages, clocked more than 10,500 reports of issues with Slack.

While Slack seems to now be working as normal for a handful of users, the status page still indicated that the outage is ongoing. The most recent update, posted at 10:24 a.m., states that "some customers are unable to load Slack. We're still actively investigating this issue, but we don't have any new information to share at this time. We'll keep you posted as soon as we have an update." Amid the outage, many Slack users have taken to social media to react, many celebrating the outage and the brief pause to their workday.