Slack, one of the popular business communication platform is down with outage on the first working day of the new year (2021).
This massive outage is on both the mobile app as well as the website which is affecting the users ability to send and receive messages and calls.
Slack had mentioned in its Slack Status portal
Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. Our team is investigating and we’ll follow up with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for any disruption caused.
The team is currently working on it to fix the issue. To know the up-to-date status of this incident , you can visit the Official Slack Status Page.
The users have started reporting the issues from around 3.14 PM GMT. While the Slack Support Team is looking in to the issue, It’s not yet clear on the exact issue yet and the timeline when this would be fixed. Slack Team mentioned that they would follow up with the updates in 30 mins.