Slack has now acknowledged the issues and is investigating the cause. | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge
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. Reports began spiking on DownDetector at around 5AM ET.
Numerous users are reporting issues with Slack on Twitter as Downdetector spikes. The issues seem to impact desktop and browser-based Slack as well as the apps.
Screenshot by Jon Porter / The Verge
Reports started spiking on Downdetector at around 10AM BST (5AM ET).
#SlackDown or almost down. pic.twitter.com/Qz89zAgZZ2
—…