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 it was implementing fixes and was "starting to see some improvements."
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:
"We'll provide an update as soon as we have more information to share and apologize for any inconvenience this is causing," the company said.
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.