Slack down as customers wrestle to ship messages in black out | UK | News | EUROtoday

Hundreds of customers have reported that communications platform Slack instantly stopped working.

Downdetector reported an enormous spike in folks reporting points with the platform at 9:41pm.

People took to social media to air their frustrations.

One X person requested: “Is Slack down???” While one other stated: “Waited until my work day was over to go down, thank you Slack.”

People took to Downdetector to attempt to discover out when Slack would possibly come again on-line as the corporate tries to deal with the difficulty.

In an announcement on their web site they stated: “We’re investigating issues users are having with sending and loading messages, including threads. We’ll be back with an update as soon as we know more.”

They later added: “We’re still working to identify the root cause of the issue, however, this is isolated to workspaces with International Data Residency (IDR) enabled. Affected users on desktop and mobile may be experiencing additional issues with loading channels, huddles, canvases, and some workflows.”