Slack is reportedly down for thousands of users across the United States. According to outage tracker DownDetector, the disruption began around 1:15 p.m. EDT on Monday. Many users say they are unable to send or receive messages, with some reporting that the app is completely unresponsive. By 1:30 p.m., DownDetector had logged more than 15,000 outage reports.
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Several users also took to X (formerly Twitter) to express their frustration.
One person wrote, "Decided to send an announcement to 6000+ people in a Slack channel at the exact moment that Slack decided to go down. Ah the joys of technology."
Another user wrote, "Slack down? Monday before holiday just got that much quieter."
A third person commented, "Slack outage?? in the middle of a super busy monday of course."
Another user expressed, “Slack is really out here slacking at the worst possible time.”
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