No, boss, I’m not slacking… and that’s the problem. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
If you’ve been having some issues with Slack, you’re not alone — the service’s status page reports that “something’s not quite right” with messaging, apps, integrations, APIs, and connections. The issues, which seem to affect threads, channels, notifications and group DMs, started around 9:40AM ET this morning and are still ongoing. Slack says that it’s “actively investigating.”
Here at The Verge, the problems seem to manifest themselves differently for different people; one of my co-workers described Slack as acting “funky all morning,” noting issues with threads in particular, while another reported that their notifications weren’t showing up correctly and that threads would load at random. For me, the app sometimes hangs when I try to…