Slack is down! Company says DNS issue, fix may take up to 24 hours to reach all users

instant messaging platform Loose Which many organizations prefer because the professional messenger is closed. users reporting online Microsoft-Proprietary messaging platform. About 12 hours ago, the reports of the outage started coming, in which people Twitter and other platforms to report outages with Slack. The company has also acknowledged the issue and said that it is working on fixing it. “Some users may experience trouble connecting to Slack. We are working hard to resolve the issue as soon as possible and will update you when we have more information to share.” 24 hours to reach all users for the fix as it is a DNS related issue. The company said that it is posting the update on its status website and @SlackStatus Twitter handle.

outage tracker downdetector There was a spike in outage reports for Slack between 11 pm and 2 pm IST last night. The outage tracker only shows global outages for Slack, not India specifically. However, Indian users have taken to Twitter to report outages in the messaging platform, which is used by multiple teams for task coordination. The issue doesn’t seem to have been fixed yet, as there have been reports from minutes ago on Twitter where users are complaining of glitches in their work from the Slack outage. The company has at least issued a personal apology to most of the users on Twitter. “Please accept our sincere apologies for the disruption. We appreciate that this is really disappointing. Improvements are ongoing, but it may take a while due to DNS related issues. If you can contact us at feedback@slack. com, we can suggest a solution,” the Slack official Twitter handle replied to a disappointed user minutes before the article went live.