Chaos at Slack!
The popular messenger app is currently struggling with massive technical problems.
The
messenger service Slack
is currently not accessible for many.
As the company reports, it is
struggling
with
massive technical problems
.
This article is continuously updated.
Update from 8:03 p.m.:
The office communication service Slack was paralyzed for hours on the first working day of the new year due to a malfunction.
Users had problems logging in and sending messages, among other things.
The failure began on Monday afternoon European time - when the working day began in many places in the USA.
The causes initially remained unclear.
Only more than two hours after the first problems occurred, Slack announced that operations had at least partially been restored.
The problems are also inconvenient for Slack, as the company is currently in sales talks.
The enterprise software giant Salesforce wants the acquisition announced in December to cost around 28 billion dollars.
Massive disruption to Slack: Messenger service collapses - affects millions of users?
First report from January 4, 2021:
Dublin - The
messenger service Slack
is currently experiencing a massive
malfunction
.
The company already announced on
that it was currently
struggling
with
technical problems
.
Users of the messenger service cannot currently load chats or send messages.
The use is accordingly
severely restricted
or not possible at all.
Customers may be experiencing issues connecting and using Slack at this time.
Our team is currently investigating and we're sorry for any troubles this may be causing.
Please see https://t.co/hlhV4Z15g6 for updates.
- Slack (@SlackHQ) January 4, 2021
Messenger service Slack: massive disruptions
Since Monday
afternoon
, numerous users have been reporting
problems
with the messenger service
on the website
allestören.de
.
At 16:13 alone, 839 reports were received.
57 percent of people report problems with the app, 22 percent with the website and 20 percent when logging in.
Most of the reports so far have come from
Berlin
and
Munich
.
At the moment it is not possible to predict how long the
disruption
will
last
.
As the company announced, it is working on a solution to the problem.
Slack: Messenger app particularly important since the corona pandemic
The
Slack
messenger service
has been used
extensively by numerous companies
, especially since the
corona pandemic
.
Since many people work in the
home office
, many companies use Slack as a
communication channel
.
More than 750,000 work groups should currently run via Slack, and the messenger company reported around ten million users per day worldwide in 2019. How many of these companies and users are now hanging in the communication gap is still unknown.
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