Slack’s having issues with notifications and loading threads and channels - The Verge

If you’ve had issues with Slack connected Thursday, you’re not unsocial — for astir of the day, the service’s presumption page has reported that “something’s not rather right” with messaging, apps, integrations, APIs, and connections. The issues, which look to impact threads, channels, notifications and radical DMs, started astir 9:40AM ET this greeting and are inactive ongoing, though the institution has noted that it’s seen “significant improvement” for immoderate issues, and is rolling retired a hole for others.

Here astatine The Verge, the problems manifested themselves otherwise for antithetic people; 1 of my co-workers described Slack arsenic acting “funky each morning,” noting issues with threads successful particular, portion different reported that their notifications weren’t showing up correctly and that threads would load astatine random. For me, the app sometimes hung erstwhile I effort to load a channel, and it lone fto maine scroll backmost a definite amount; the app besides booted maine retired of the Threads surface erstwhile I was trying to benignant a reply and past lone showed hours-old threads erstwhile I went back. Another workfellow reported that their Threads surface was breached entirely. By the aboriginal evening, things were mostly backmost to normal.

At astir 3PM ET, Slack noted that observed “significant betterment with notifications, accessing channels/DMs, saved items and API hyperlinks,” and by 5:03PM, it said it had identified the contented with threads and was rolling retired a fix. The presumption leafage inactive says determination are issues, but Slack says “users should commencement seeing betterment soon.”

While these issues person been annoying, they’re weren’t wholly work-breaking similar full Slack outages are. That whitethorn beryllium wherefore there’s not a ton of chatter astir it connected Twitter and wherefore determination are relatively fewer reports connected Downdetector.com. But no, you’re not imagining that things aren’t rather right; hopefully, Slack volition get things sorted soon.

Update October 13th 5:18PM ET: Updated to enactment that Slack is rolling retired a hole for the thread surface issue, and has improved notifications and DMs.