Rest assured if users report that they cannot send or receive messages on the popular communication platform
- The team-based messaging app was offline Monday evening
- Outage tracking site Downdetector received hundreds of reports from users
- The blackout is the latest in a series of technical issues across various platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Reddit
Slack, the popular team communications platform, was offline Monday evening, with hundreds of reports of users unable to send or receive messages.
Disruption tracking website Downdetector received more than 870 reports as of 6 p.m.
The vast majority involved issues accessing the Slack application. Other users reported issues with the platform’s server connectivity and website.
The problem was resolved about 45 minutes later.
In July 2023, an hours-long outage left users around the world unable to message each other.
Slack, the popular team communication platform, experienced problems on Monday evening
Hundreds of outages were reported after the cloud-based messaging app went offline
Monday’s blackout is the latest in a series of outages on popular platforms.
Last week, Instagram, Facebook and its companion app Messenger experienced a major outage.
The platforms were offline for at least two and a half hours on Tuesday, sending hundreds of thousands of users into panic mode as they struggled to log into their accounts.
A source told DailyMail.com that Meta’s internal systems were down at the time its service dashboard showed “major disruptions” to many of its services.
Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, posted a statement on social media almost two hours after users first reported problems.
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,” Stone wrote. “We have resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone affected, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused.”
He declined to comment on the nature of the technical problem.
A day later, on March 6, networking platform LinkedIn crashed, causing tens of thousands of users to receive an error message when they tried to log in.
According to Downdetector, the message first appeared around 9 p.m.
LinkedIn announced about an hour later that it was “back up and running” and apologized for the service outage.
On March 5, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger experienced a major outage that left users unable to access their accounts
Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, posted an apology on social media after the issues were resolved
A day later, networking platform LinkedIn crashed, causing an error message to be displayed for thousands of users
Also last week, content sharing website Reddit experienced ‘intermittent issues and slow loading times for users’
The next day, dozens of Reddit users complained that the site had gone offline around 2 p.m.
It was the second problem the site encountered in just a few hours. Around 11 a.m. the same day, Reddit was loading slowly and experiencing “intermittent glitches.”
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the network said it was investigating an issue that was “causing intermittent issues and slow loading times for users.”
The outage affected users around the world, including those in Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada, but most reports came from the United States.
Reddit saw an increased number of incidents since February 22, with at least three occurring since then.