Tell my boss its a Slack outage

Slack seems to be having points for some folks, with studies coming in of customers who can’t hook up with the service, obtain errors when making an attempt to ship messages, and might’t even access Slack’s website. The concern doesn’t seem to have an effect on everybody, and Slack hasn’t gone so far as calling it an outage on its status page. The variations in experiences level to a potential routing concern or the much more possible perpetrator, DNS (it’s at all times DNS).

Some of my co-workers have had points as we speak, whereas it’s working wonderful for others (together with, sadly, me). It’s unclear how widespread the problems are — DownDetector only shows a thousand or so reports.

The firm says it’s engaged on a repair for the problem, however the incident report page says it’s been ongoing since round 12:30PM ET, or 9:30AM PT.

If Slack is mission crucial to your work, you possibly can strive utilizing your telephone’s connection as a substitute of Wi-Fi, logging out and in of the service or your VPN when you’re utilizing one, or making an attempt a unique Wi-Fi community in case you have entry to at least one. If all that fails, perhaps it’s the universe telling you to take a stroll or prepare dinner your self one thing good. When the chat app finally comes again, it’ll in all probability accomplish that in a little bit of a wave — you’ll be able to simply inform your boss that it got here again just a little later for you and that you just have been actually making an attempt to message them about that draft, sincere.