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You know you have major problems when the status page itself fails to load.

Is there a meta-status page?

I tried http://status.status.slack.com to see what was going on with their status page, but there was a server error. So, I tried http://status.status.status.slack.com to see what was going on with their status page status page, but there was a server error.

Yup: https://metastatuspage.com/

Slack's status page is hosted by StatusPage, and it appears that the Slack client attempts to load the status page when it can't connect to Slack. So in effect, Slack is DDOS'ing their own status page.

I really did not expect anyone to actually come up with that. :)

They might want to do something about sending everyone over to that page.

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