Is Slack down? Thousands report outage on Wednesday
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Thousands of users reported an outage on Slack Wednesday, according to Downdetector.
What we know:
The company shared on its status website it was investigating a "severe latency" issue that was impacting "all Slack services."
Slack said while most of features have been restored, messaging and workflows may still have "lingering" issues.
Those lingering issues include:
- Empty pills instead of @-mention
- Delayed reacji
- Mismatch in Channel member count and channel membership
- Slow loading of messages, user avatars, and unfurls
Users were experiencing delayed messages and some were unable to use the desktop Slack app.
What we don't know:
The company did not have an ETA on when the issue would be resolved or what caused the glitch.
What they're saying:
"Teams continue to implement configuration adjustments and deployment fixes to resolve the issue. All features except for Workflows and Messaging should be recovered," according to the Slack status website.
The Source: Information for this article was taken from the Slack status website on May 27, 2026, and Downdetector.com. This story was reported from San Jose.