- The team-based messaging app was offline Monday evening
- Outage-tracking site Downdetector received hundreds of reports from users
- The blackout is the latest in a series of technical issues across platforms including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Reddit
Slack, the popular team communication platform, was down Monday evening, with hundreds of reports of users unable to send or receive messages.
Outage-tracking website Downdetector received over 870 reports as of 6 pm.
The vast majority concerned issues accessing the Slack application. Other users reported problems with server connectivity and the platform’s website.
The issue was resolved roughly 45 minutes later.
In July 2023, an hour-long outage left users worldwide unable to message each other.
Slack, the popular team communication platform, was experiencing issues Monday evening
Hundreds of outages were reported after the cloud-based messaging app went offline
Monday’s blackout is the latest in a series of outages on popular platforms.
Just last week, Instagram, Facebook and its companion app Messenger experienced a major interruption.
The platforms were down for at least two and a half hours on Tuesday, sending hundreds of thousands of users into a panic as they struggled to sign into their accounts.
A source told DailyMail.com that Meta’s internal systems were not working at the time its service dashboard showed ‘major disruptions’ for many of its services.
Andy Stone, Meta’s communication director, posted a statement on social media nearly two hours after users first reported problems.
‘Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,’ Stone wrote. ‘We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.’
He declined to elaborate on the nature of the technical issue.
One day later on March 6, networking platform LinkedIn crashed, displaying an error message to tens of thousands of users as they attempted to log in.
The message first appeared around 9 pm, according to Downdetector.
LinkedIn announced it was ‘back up and running’ around an hour later and apologized for the service interruption.
On March 5, Instagram , Facebook and Messenger experienced a major interruption that left users unable to access their accounts
Andy Stone, Meta’s communication director, posted an apology to social media after the issues were remedied
One day later, networking platform LinkedIn crashed, displaying an error message for thousands of users
Also last week, content-sharing website Reddit experienced ‘intermittent issues and slow loads for users’
The following day, scores of Reddit users complained that the site had gone down around 2 pm.
It was the second issue the site had encountered in a span of hours. Around 11 am the same day, Reddit was loading slowly and experiencing ‘intermittent failures.’
In a post to X, formerly Twitter, the network said it was investigating an issue that was causing ‘intermittent issues and slow loads for users.’
The outage impacted users worldwide, including those in Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada, but most reports originated from the United States.
Reddit saw a heightened number of incidents since February 22, with at least three occurring since then.