Ask HN: Is Slack Down?

Mandatum · 2025-05-12T23:45:52 1747093552

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...?

smcleod · 2025-05-13T05:48:54 1747115334

I would not recommend basing your core business capabilities around an external chat app with no redundancy. Outages happen and always will.

cyberge99 · 2025-05-13T01:28:20 1747099700

If your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.

peterkos · 2025-05-12T22:40:01 1747089601

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

smcleod · 2025-05-12T22:38:31 1747089511

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

rdm_blackhole · 2025-05-13T13:43:58 1747143838

I got logged out of Fastmail as well. Do we have any ideas as to what happened?

mvdtnz · 2025-05-12T23:20:23 1747092023

I could really do without a Fastmail outage today.

TriangleEdge · 2025-05-12T22:41:59 1747089719

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

javierluraschi · 2025-05-12T22:34:11 1747089251

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

zamadatix · 2025-05-12T22:36:25 1747089385

The "real" status tracker disagrees: https://downdetector.com/status/slack/

javierluraschi · 2025-05-12T22:38:57 1747089537

My bad, thanks!

make3 · 2025-05-12T23:13:32 1747091612

Slack, Fortnite and Counter-Strike all at the same time somehow according to the site :) Who knows if there's a link

smcleod · 2025-05-12T22:43:50 1747089830

major incident acknowledged https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa

nitwit005 · 2025-05-12T22:39:04 1747089544

It shows one now.

fiatpandas · 2025-05-12T23:28:11 1747092491

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.

borland · 2025-05-12T23:26:40 1747092400

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 :-(

thehours · 2025-05-12T22:38:19 1747089499

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

MostlyAmiable · 2025-05-12T22:33:39 1747089219

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

wave100 · 2025-05-12T22:30:11 1747089011

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

javierluraschi · 2025-05-12T22:32:50 1747089170

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

JustSkyfall · 2025-05-12T22:41:57 1747089717

Yep, I'm getting random issues too

ansonhw · 2025-05-12T22:35:58 1747089358

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

ansonhw · 2025-05-12T22:36:08 1747089368

not sure why i didn't see any status updates

ansonhw · 2025-05-12T23:17:18 1747091838

down again for me

tptacek · 2025-05-12T22:29:26 1747088966

It's not just you.

flowardnut · 2025-05-12T23:13:55 1747091635

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

alook · 2025-05-13T00:06:34 1747094794

I laughed out loud at that 100 number too when I was reading statuspage :P

markerz · 2025-05-12T22:35:45 1747089345

seungwoolee518 · 2025-05-12T23:38:27 1747093107

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