Slack is experiencing an outage

We recommend having a plan B: https://sameroom.io/blog/when-team-chat-goes-down-are-you-re...

It doesn't seem to be really sporadic, as even their status page is almost not reachable: https://status.slack.com

yuuup.....not long after I helped get our co migrated off hipchat....wee.....yay saas! (I kid, I kid, I love SaaS, and am a "cloud guy". :) )