Slack Is Down

39 points·roomey··12 comments

I think it is although the status page isn't saying. Twitter is saying it is: Sending a request - url: https://www.slack.com/api/apps.connections.open, error: The read operation timed out)

EDIT: Status page now showing they are having an issue

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I'm seeing this as well, and of course the status page says all good

https://status.slack.com/

Came to HN to get a confirmation that it wasn’t just me. Lying status pages are bloody annoying.

I just set-up an automatic status page tracking Slack, in case you're looking for confirmation in the future: https://slack.onlineornot.com/

(no incidents listed atm because I set it up after they came back online)

Uses an uptime check against their API and website to independently check that they're still up.

Because someone’s OKR or some other metric depends on it and they will keep it from being on the status page as long as possible until there’s no denying.

Goodheart's law in action.

Incident: https://status.slack.com/2022-07/1387a8fab7d2e2ec

Yep, we have moved to google workspace chat for the time being. Panic :)

It is up and down for me: https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

It's been down for a couple of hours, I managed to send some messages just before 1200 UTC but nothing since.

Whatsapp picking up the slack for us, and of course a trusty phone.

Yep, Slack is having a panic attack.

I'm talking on it right now.

Yep it affecting us as well

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