Slack is down, so it's time to contemplate how far humanity has come
Once again, it's not just you.
This is completely unrelated to Slack and just an image I picked in a hurry. But maybe it points at the next technology addiction for us fickle humans.
Oh, the human reliance on technology -- we're already so dependent on a small number of products made by a tiny number of companies that when one of them goes down, it feels like the whole world has come to a screeching halt.
Today, that product is Slack, the giant team messaging app that many companies -- including us here at CNET -- use to communicate with each other. (Over 8 million people use Slack every single day.)
Tomorrow, it might be Facebook, or Twitter or something else.
This is the reason why email still exists, folks. Or, you know, ears and mouths.
Here are a couple of other times Slack has caused us to do some navel-gazing by virtue of an outage. There have been others, and there will be more.
We're investigating problems with connectivity at this time. We're sorry for the interruption and will keep you posted as soon as we have an update. https://t.co/Yq2yI0pjiT
— Slack Status (@SlackStatus) September 7, 2018
Update, 11:39 a.m. PT: Looks like Slack is back up. We're no longer seeing many reports that it's down -- though Slack the company says "we may not be out of the woods yet."
We're currently investigating connectivity issues impacting all workspaces. Folks should be seeing things improve, but we may not be out of the woods yet. https://t.co/fQC2bkG1zy
— Slack Status (@SlackStatus) September 7, 2018
Update, 11:55 a.m. PT: We're all clear now.
Previous times we've published this (almost) exact post:
August 16, 2018
Other notable Slack outages: