Slack was down for many users on Monday morning as it faced a bumpy start on the first workday of 2021, reports Business Insider. DownDetector showed over 15,000 reports detailing issues as the company reassured users it was investigating and will rectify the issue.
- Slack on Monday tweeted that its customers may have trouble loading channels and connecting to the messaging platform.
- The company, in a later tweet, said it had updated the severity on its end via the status website, which now reflects a more widespread outage than it previously did.
- Slack’s business has surged during the pandemic as stay-at-home orders prompted people to rely on its messaging software to coordinate with colleagues.
- Slack’s hiccups are not unique as other messaging systems such as Google’s Gmail have reported lags, error messages, and unexpected behavior.
Slack’s stock is currently declining. WORK: NYSE is down 1.11%
