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Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

69 points abatilo | 32 comments | 12 May 25 22:28 UTC | HN request time: 1.286s | source | bottom

Are other people unable to load anything in slack all of a sudden? Status page hasn't been updated for anything yet
1. tptacek ◴[12 May 25 22:29 UTC] No.43968047[source]▶
It's not just you.
2. wave100 ◴[12 May 25 22:30 UTC] No.43968050[source]▶
Yeah, just ran into a few blips. Seems to load intermittently.
3. javierluraschi ◴[12 May 25 22:32 UTC] No.43968069[source]▶
Yes, getting a bunch of retry and messages failing to send.
4. MostlyAmiable ◴[12 May 25 22:33 UTC] No.43968071[source]▶
Yup, I just checked in multiple workspaces and I was unable to connect in all of them.
5. javierluraschi ◴[12 May 25 22:34 UTC] No.43968078[source]▶
https://slack-status.com/ -- no incidents reported at 3:33PM PST
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6. markerz ◴[12 May 25 22:35 UTC] No.43968094[source]▶
Yes
7. ansonhw ◴[12 May 25 22:35 UTC] No.43968099[source]▶
was down (messages not going through) for me, then web was ok, then all went down, now back up
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8. ansonhw ◴[12 May 25 22:36 UTC] No.43968101[source]▶
not sure why i didn't see any status updates
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9. zamadatix ◴[12 May 25 22:36 UTC] No.43968107[source]▶
The "real" status tracker disagrees: https://downdetector.com/status/slack/
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10. thehours ◴[12 May 25 22:38 UTC] No.43968122[source]▶
Yes, briefly for me. I also lost access to Fastmail.
11. smcleod ◴[12 May 25 22:38 UTC] No.43968125[source]▶
Slack, Fastmail, Claude, Github - all seem to be having intermittent outages and are randomly logging people out.
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12. javierluraschi ◴[12 May 25 22:38 UTC] No.43968127{3}[source]▶
My bad, thanks!
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13. nitwit005 ◴[12 May 25 22:39 UTC] No.43968128[source]▶
It shows one now.
14. peterkos ◴[12 May 25 22:40 UTC] No.43968133[source]▶
"Users experiencing issues connecting to Slack and unable to load threads" - https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa
15. ◴[12 May 25 22:40 UTC] No.43968135[source]▶
16. JustSkyfall ◴[12 May 25 22:41 UTC] No.43968146[source]▶
Yep, I'm getting random issues too
17. TriangleEdge ◴[12 May 25 22:41 UTC] No.43968147[source]▶
https://downdetector.com/status/slack/
18. smcleod ◴[12 May 25 22:43 UTC] No.43968154[source]▶
major incident acknowledged https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa
19. ◴[12 May 25 22:52 UTC] No.43968209{4}[source]▶
20. make3 ◴[12 May 25 23:13 UTC] No.43968327{3}[source]▶
Slack, Fortnite and Counter-Strike all at the same time somehow according to the site :) Who knows if there's a link
21. flowardnut ◴[12 May 25 23:13 UTC] No.43968330[source]▶
uptime of 100% -- time to update that number :p
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22. ansonhw ◴[12 May 25 23:17 UTC] No.43968345{3}[source]▶
down again for me
23. mvdtnz ◴[12 May 25 23:20 UTC] No.43968359[source]▶
I could really do without a Fastmail outage today.
24. borland ◴[12 May 25 23:26 UTC] No.43968394[source]▶
Yes, slack is intermittently down for me and the rest of my company. It's intermittently losing messages, failing to load new ones, and showing error pages :-(
25. fiatpandas ◴[12 May 25 23:28 UTC] No.43968402[source]▶
I'm seeing messages double post for some reason, both ones I send and ones from my coworkers. The 2nd message fails the first time. And the occasional connection error.
26. seungwoolee518 ◴[12 May 25 23:38 UTC] No.43968462[source]▶
Yeah! now I'm Learning How TCP Network is Work. trying to keep sending Messages twice.
27. Mandatum ◴[12 May 25 23:45 UTC] No.43968503[source]▶
Whichever Salesforce employee has their bonus tied to this being declared an incident and not an outage; fuck you.

This has affected critical, operational processes which YOUR sales and marketing teams use in Case Studies[0][1][2] and documentation[3][4].

[0] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/react-veterans...

[1] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/veterans-affai...

[2] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/customer-stories/mta-new-york-c...

[3] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/productivity/why-every-bus...

[4] https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/productivity/standard-oper...?

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28. alook ◴[13 May 25 00:06 UTC] No.43968601[source]▶
I laughed out loud at that 100 number too when I was reading statuspage :P
29. cyberge99 ◴[13 May 25 01:28 UTC] No.43968953[source]▶
If your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.
30. smcleod ◴[13 May 25 05:48 UTC] No.43969919[source]▶
I would not recommend basing your core business capabilities around an external chat app with no redundancy. Outages happen and always will.
31. rdm_blackhole ◴[13 May 25 13:43 UTC] No.43972923[source]▶
I got logged out of Fastmail as well. Do we have any ideas as to what happened?