On Oct. 6, the digital communication landscape was jolted awake by roughly a 15-minute global Slack outage. This brief interruption had a ripple effect on the remote working world.
Digital tools like Slack have become lifelines in our online work routine, especially for remote teams. Today’s short-lived outage highlighted a pivotal but often ignored fact: we must ensure communication redundancy for these digital tools; otherwise, we expose ourselves to systemic risks.
Users worldwide took to X, detailing the disruption this short outage caused in their regular workflows. Oddly, Slack’s status page remained unaffected, claiming a 100% uptime.
Users on X complaining that Slack was down
However, after it appeared that Slack services had been resumed around 10:10 AM GMT, Slack updated its status page to state that some users were experiencing outages beginning at 10:11 AM GMT.
Slack Status Page October 6
CryptoSlate can confirm that as of press time, it appears services have been resto
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