The funniest responses to today's global Slack outage

Slack was down today, and Twitter lit up. Here are some of the funniest responses to the platform’s connectivity outage — even though users in Europe reportedly had problems using it hours beforehand.

All workspaces are currently experiencing difficulty connecting to Slack. We appreciate your patience while we look into this. https://t.co/jdzxIeLoWA

— Slack Status (@SlackStatus) June 27, 2018

Twitter had a lot to say

The issue definitely didn’t go unnoticed online.

How am I supposed to tell my team that Slack is down when I don't have Slack to tell them at Slack is down?

— Justin Karp (@jskarp) June 27, 2018

Slack is down so I can’t share memes with my friends so have resorted to printing them out and leaving them on their desks. pic.twitter.com/xhg92anReH

— Dave Jewitt (@IrregularDave) June 27, 2018

When #Slack is down the whole tech world descends into chaos. We are lost. Directionless. Will we ever see the light again?! What is this archaic thing the Elders call "e-mail?"

— 🎃 Jessica Powell 🎃 (@bardicbabble) June 27, 2018

When you’re a freelancer and #slack goes down, its essentially the equivalent of a zombie apocalypse in the digital world. Coffee break?

— Jen ☯ (@_jblxxm) June 27, 2018

I just tried to share a "slack is down" tweet with a coworker… over slack pic.twitter.com/sE23m18Gg8

— Jacob (@jlmessage) June 27, 2018

Slack is down… I mean how the hell am I supposed to communicate with people, like face to face?? #slack pic.twitter.com/6BQmbIXFYM

— D Malone (@DamianMalone) June 27, 2018

Slack is down and now I have no means to communicate with my team pic.twitter.com/BzR47bdQ3S

— manny (@mannyfidel) June 27, 2018

And #slack is down 🎉 pic.twitter.com/MftmVWaIr0

— Nicola Corti (@cortinico) June 27, 2018

when I see that Slack is down pic.twitter.com/VRfLDYncKr

— Holly Ojalvo (@heoj) June 27, 2018

Now I have to actually get out of my chair and go talk to the human being in the next office. Seriously.

— Marie Alford-Harkey (@RevMarieAH) June 27, 2018

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— Jamie Ivanov (@neproshennie) June 27, 2018

https://twitter.com/martindeto/status/1011971024789766144

https://twitter.com/GrantWinney/status/1011970249531576320

Slack. A decrease in activity, as in business or work.

See also: What happens when #Slack is down. https://t.co/IXTWFYH91O pic.twitter.com/6PDhotg5RF

— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) June 27, 2018

People didn’t hold back.

Slack is down maybe I can actually get something done now and not get distracted… pic.twitter.com/BIDGSrObDb

— Muhammad Umar (@w3debugger) June 27, 2018

uggh pic.twitter.com/7WY0ADNH9u

— Judson Gingerich (@srqdude) June 27, 2018

you guys are slacking.

— Simon (@siymans) June 27, 2018

When it's taken away realise just how much it has become part of the working day…. so hurry up guys… this tea break is going on too long!

— Richard Bentley (@bentleyrh) June 27, 2018

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— thetechmargin (@thetechmargin) June 27, 2018

Hoping to reconnect soon.. its sporadically coming back then dropping out. pic.twitter.com/GgZMro5D8u

— LOLGotVerTags (@LOLGotYerTags) June 27, 2018