Slack is facing a major outage with its notification system, causing delays and missing messages.
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Slack's Monday Morning Meltdown: Notification Outage Disrupts Workflows
This Monday morning, January 27, 2025, many Slack users are experiencing significant disruptions to their workflows due to a widespread notification outage. The popular workplace communication platform is facing issues with its notification system, causing messages to go unnoticed, particularly those nested within threads. This disruption is impacting team collaboration and causing frustration for users who rely on Slack for seamless communication. The Problem: Missing Notifications and Buried Threads Reports are flooding in from users experiencing a range of notification-related problems. Some users are reporting that notifications are simply not appearing at all, leaving them unaware of new messages. Others are receiving delayed notifications, sometimes minutes after a message has been sent, rendering them less effective. A particularly frustrating issue involves thread notifications: users are receiving repeated notifications for thread messages they have already marked as read, crea…
