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Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

69 pointsabatilo29 comments

Are other people unable to load anything in slack all of a sudden? Status page hasn't been updated for anything yet

Whichever Salesforce employee has their bonus tied to this being declared an incident and not an outage; fuck you.

This has affected critical, operational processes which YOUR sales and marketing teams use in Case Studies[0][1][2] and documentation[3][4].

[0] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/react-veterans...

[1] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/veterans-affai...

[2] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/mta-new-york-c...

[3] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/productivity/why-every-bus...

[4] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/productivity/standard-oper...?

If your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.

I would not recommend basing your core business capabilities around an external chat app with no redundancy. Outages happen and always will.

"Users experiencing issues connecting to Slack and unable to load threads" - https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa

Slack, Fastmail, Claude, Github - all seem to be having intermittent outages and are randomly logging people out.

I could really do without a Fastmail outage today.

I got logged out of Fastmail as well. Do we have any ideas as to what happened?

https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

https://slack-status.com/ -- no incidents reported at 3:33PM PST

The "real" status tracker disagrees: https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

My bad, thanks!

Slack, Fortnite and Counter-Strike all at the same time somehow according to the site :) Who knows if there's a link

It shows one now.

major incident acknowledged https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa

I'm seeing messages double post for some reason, both ones I send and ones from my coworkers. The 2nd message fails the first time. And the occasional connection error.

Yes, slack is intermittently down for me and the rest of my company. It's intermittently losing messages, failing to load new ones, and showing error pages :-(

Yes, briefly for me. I also lost access to Fastmail.

Yup, I just checked in multiple workspaces and I was unable to connect in all of them.

Yeah, just ran into a few blips. Seems to load intermittently.

Yes, getting a bunch of retry and messages failing to send.

Yep, I'm getting random issues too

was down (messages not going through) for me, then web was ok, then all went down, now back up

not sure why i didn't see any status updates

down again for me

It's not just you.

uptime of 100% -- time to update that number :p

I laughed out loud at that 100 number too when I was reading statuspage :P

Yes

Yeah! now I'm Learning How TCP Network is Work. trying to keep sending Messages twice.

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