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Slack's down. Up. Down. Up, up, up!

After a harrowing 3 hours attempting to communicate without Slack, our shared nightmare is over.

Lori Grunin Senior Editor / Advice
I've been reviewing hardware and software, devising testing methodology and handed out buying advice for what seems like forever; I'm currently absorbed by computers and gaming hardware, but previously spent many years concentrating on cameras. I've also volunteered with a cat rescue for over 15 years doing adoptions, designing marketing materials, managing volunteers and, of course, photographing cats.
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Lori Grunin
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The Slack messaging tool used by many teams around the world has experienced intermittent outages for a little over 3 hours this morning. Surprisingly laid-back users took to Twitter to express their feels.

At 12:49 p.m. ET, the company tweeted:

Earlier on Wednesday, the company tweeted a status update after some complaints.

You can always follow Slack's outage updates on Twitter or on Slack's system status page.

Or just use one of the other zillion ways communicating that you did before Slack existed.

Originally published 9.54 a.m. ET.
Update, 1.20 p.m. ET: Added news of Slack's revival.