Slack Global Outage Disrupts Thousands of Users

Slack, the widely-used workplace messaging platform, experienced a significant global outage on Wednesday, affecting thousands of users who reported issues with connectivity, messaging, and logging in. The problems began to surface around 11:00 a.m. ET, with reports spiking on Downdetector and Slack's own status page acknowledging the disruption. Users across various regions expressed frustration on social media, while some took the opportunity to take a break from work. Slack's engineers are actively investigating the issue, but the cause remains unclear and no estimated resolution time has been provided. Businesses relying on Slack for communication have resorted to alternative tools like email and video conferencing as they await further updates. The outage underscores the critical role such platforms play in modern workforce collaboration.