It’s not just you, Slack appears to be down

Slack, the workplace chat app, is having some issues this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. The service’s status dashboard acknowledged the issues with a post at 5:35AM ET which notes that “Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages in Slack,” and says that the company is investigating the issue. Slack elevated status to an “outage” about 30 minutes later. Reports began spiking on DownDetector at around 5AM ET.

Numerous users are reporting issues with Slack on Twitter which impacts desktop and browser-based Slack as well as the apps. Some messages appear to be getting through when sent via the mobile apps but it’s inconsistent, with different Verge staffers seeing different messages making it through.

At 5:57AM ET, Slack posted a new update to its outage tracker:

Slack experiencing an outage across the app. Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages, using workflows and various other actions in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.