Ask HN: Is Slack Down?
30 comments
·May 12, 2025Mandatum
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...?
cyberge99
If your operations rely on a slack workflow, it sounds like it’s a case of wrong tool for the job.
peterkos
"Users experiencing issues connecting to Slack and unable to load threads" - https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa
smcleod
Slack, Fastmail, Claude, Github - all seem to be having intermittent outages and are randomly logging people out.
mvdtnz
I could really do without a Fastmail outage today.
javierluraschi
https://slack-status.com/ -- no incidents reported at 3:33PM PST
zamadatix
The "real" status tracker disagrees: https://downdetector.com/status/slack/
make3
Slack, Fortnite and Counter-Strike all at the same time somehow according to the site :) Who knows if there's a link
smcleod
major incident acknowledged https://slack-status.com/2025-05/7b32241eb41a54aa
nitwit005
It shows one now.
przemub
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fiatpandas
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
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
Yes, briefly for me. I also lost access to Fastmail.
MostlyAmiable
Yup, I just checked in multiple workspaces and I was unable to connect in all of them.
wave100
Yeah, just ran into a few blips. Seems to load intermittently.
javierluraschi
Yes, getting a bunch of retry and messages failing to send.
null
Are other people unable to load anything in slack all of a sudden? Status page hasn't been updated for anything yet