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Slack Suffers Widespread Outage, Users Report Issues
28 May
Summary
- Thousands of users reported Slack outages on Wednesday.
- Issues included attachments not opening and messaging failures.
- Slack acknowledged severe latency affecting all its services.
Slack, a popular team communication platform, experienced a significant outage on Wednesday, impacting thousands of users worldwide. Reports indicated widespread service disruptions, with users complaining about failures in messaging, file attachments, and other core functionalities. The mobile version of the application reportedly continued to work for many.
Slack officially acknowledged the issue, citing severe latency across all its services. The company stated the problem was internal, suggesting that user-side troubleshooting would not resolve the widespread disruptions. As of Wednesday, the number of reported outages began to decrease substantially, indicating a potential resolution was underway.
