Thousands of people reported errors connecting to Slack around 1 p.m. ET on Monday, Nov. 10. Slack is a popular message platform in the corporate world, and the outage caused big problems for users starting their workweek.

Like many news outlets, Mashable reporters use Slack to communicate, and multiple members of the Mashable team reported receiving errors when trying to send new messages on Monday.

User error reports for Slack spiked on Monday afternoon on the platform Downdetector , with more than 15,000 incidents reported in just minutes. The initial spike started around 12:56 p.m. ET. (Disclosure: Downdetector and Mashable are both owned by the company Ziff Davis.)

According to a Slack status page , the company was investigating a "new incident."

At 1:26 p.m. ET, the company

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