Slack, the widely-used workplace instant messaging platform, experienced significant performance issues on Wednesday afternoon, with the company acknowledging a “severe” lag affecting all services.
What Happened?
According to Slack’s official status page, the engineering team began investigating the problem just after 4 p.m. Pacific time. “The Slack Engineering team is currently investigating severe latency impacting all Slack services,” the company stated. “We'll provide an update as soon as we have more information to share and apologize for any inconvenience this is causing.”
The outage impacted key features including login, messaging, notifications, search, and API capabilities. Downdetector, an online monitoring site, recorded over 3,000 user reports of issues around the time of the announcement, indicating widespread disruption.
User Impact
Many users took to social media to express frustration, with some reporting that messages were delayed by several minutes or failed to send entirely. The lag also affected integrations with other tools, causing workflow interruptions for businesses relying on Slack for real-time communication.
This is a developing story. Updates will follow as more information becomes available from Slack.
