Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

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...?

"Users experiencing issues connecting to Slack and unable to load threads" - https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa

Slack, Fastmail, Claude, Github - all seem to be having intermittent outages and are randomly logging people out.

https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

https://slack-status.com/ -- no incidents reported at 3:33PM PST

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.

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 :-(

Yes, briefly for me. I also lost access to Fastmail.

Yup, I just checked in multiple workspaces and I was unable to connect in all of them.

Yeah, just ran into a few blips. Seems to load intermittently.

Yes, getting a bunch of retry and messages failing to send.

Yep, I'm getting random issues too

was down (messages not going through) for me, then web was ok, then all went down, now back up

It's not just you.

uptime of 100% -- time to update that number :p

Yes

Yeah! now I'm Learning How TCP Network is Work. trying to keep sending Messages twice.