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Oh no, it’s looks like Slack is down and that’s bad news for workplaces across the globe including for us at TechRadar.
Downdetector reported a huge spike in Slack outage reports and there are reports rolling in that Slack is down, so let’s get into this.
Yeah so Slack is definitely down and I’m kinda flying blind with no easy contact with my colleagues.
But this outage doesn’t appear to be affectinve everyone, as my boss Marc Mclaren reports his Slack is still working… how odd.
Ok now he’s just told me his Slack is down. So yeah, this isn’t good for remote collaboration.
Just got an email from Future Publishing’s (the company that owns TechRadar) IT department that Slack is down across the board.
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Usually when outages happen they don’t always directly affect us at TechRadar. But we all use Slack to collaborate remotely and across multiple countries and continents.
So this is a outage I’m really feeling directly; I can’t quickly contact my colleagues in the US, which is a pain when there’s a major Amazon product event going on.
So we’re back to some rather old school communication in the form of email and collaborating in Google Docs. No bad thing, as Google’s G Suite is a rather robust set of tools. Equally, this isn’t exactly optimal.
On its service status page, Slack has posted the following:
“We’re still working to restore functionality to affected Slack features such as sending messages, workflows, threads and other API-related features. Users may also experience issues when attempting to log-in. Thank you for your continued patience as we continue investigating. We’ll be following up with further updates as they become available.”
(Image credit: Unsplash / Jason Strull)
I can’t tell if I’m feeling rather zen from the lack of Slack notification dings, or if I’m feeling rather isolated; the latter is probably down to me also listening to an atmospheric sci-fi soundtrack as I type.
Thanks to the magic of cloud-based software, I’ve got some insights from Desire Athow, Managing Editor of TechRadar Pro, on the state of play with Slack and what the outage means for businesses.
“Here’s how we’re coping. Slack is a single point of failure for an entire organization, when it went down a few minutes ago, my first thought was, what do we have as an alternative?” he writes.
“Slack is where all real-time communication happens within tens of thousands of businesses including. At the time of writing, Downdetector has thousands instances of outage reported over the past three hours and rising.”
Wonder how quickly I’ll get sick of seening the image below? Slack is still borked for me.
(Image credit: Future)
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