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No, it’s not your internet, and you’ve not been fired either.

Slack, a well-known messaging platform used across organizations is experiencing a widespread outage, according toDowndetector.

Slack widespread outage impacts millions of users

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Slack is working to restore services, citing that “teams are aware and are investigating the issue.”

Affected users have been encouraged to stay alert as more updates trickle in onstatus.slack.com.

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Admittedly, the outage also caught me off guard.

“Slack is down,“Amanda indicated on X.

“I haven’t felt peace like this in 5 years.”

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“Slack being down is the adult version of a snow day.”

While technology has undoubtedly revolutionized how we work, these unexpected outages expose the fragility of our hyper-connected lives.

(and we speak from personal experience here).

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