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Slack is currently down and not working for thousands of users.

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11:30 UPDATE: Slack is back! After almost an hour of issues, the messaging platform is now up to speed once again.

ORIGINAL STORY: If youre trying and failing to send a message on Slack this morning you are not alone. The popular messaging service, which is used by businesses to keep in touch with employees at home and out of the office, is currently offline and not working for thousands of users.

The gremlins appear to have started at around 10:30am and are still ongoing with online outage monitor, Down Detector currently showing over 5,000 reports that Slack isnt working.

When trying to post on the platform, users are seeing a message which reads, "Slack couldnt send this message. Try again."

Although it's clearly bad news for those trying to message work colleagues, some have jumped for joy that they can't be contacted by their boss.

Social media platforms, such as Twitter, are full of workers who appear pretty pleased by the outage. Posting a tweet, one Slack user named Adam, said: "Slack is down, does that mean a free day off?"

And another called Rachel tweeted: "As Slack is down can I take the rest of the day off?"

Slack user James added, "Ah yes, that peculiar mix of peacefulness and anxiety that's only experienced when Slack goes down..."

It's unclear what is causing the problems or when things will be back online but Mirror Online will keep you posted with any new updates.

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