Slack, the popular workplace chat application seems to be suffering an outage today, with issues affecting users across the United States and Europe.
Users on Twitter have reported messages are repeating and showing multiple times after being sent. “Anyone else’s @SlackHQ gone all echoey? People are sending things once but it’s coming up 2-3 times,” one user wrote. The company said that it was investigating the reports.
For many businesses, Slack is central to communication. For now staff may be forced to talk in person. “Is it just me or Slack is not delivering message in one go for everyone?” one Twitter user complained. Another added: “Is Slack having issues? Seeing lots of messages fail to send and double/triple posting.” A third user noted: “Getting a bunch of ‘Slack couldn’t send this message’ errors while messaging my colleagues. Messages still send though which is weird.”
One Twitter user wrote: “What’s going on with Slack! Messages are not sent, but are sending so end up sending/receiving multiple messages. Going crazy!”
“There seems to be an issue with slack saying messages aren’t delivered but they are (leading to duplication),” explained another user on Twitter. “Also reactions to messages and editing is not working.”