The massive chat platform Slack is dealing with an outage today. We have no idea how long the outage will last, but reports on Downdetector have absolutely exploded with remote workers wondering why they can't connect ot their coworkers.

Slack has acknowledged the outage on its status page, stating that users may experience "Trouble connecting to or loading Slack."

I can say firsthand that Slack is giving me issues, with messages being delayed or not going through at all.

Slack down — live outage updates

A Slack outage report explosion

Literally thousands of people have jumped to Down Detector to report problems with the popular work chat app. As of this post, the reports are up to 15,000, which is an absurd number for an outage that's so early.

Slack's first status update

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