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Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Is Slack down?

No state given

Its feed's latest incident as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC is "Incident: Single Sign On errors", posted Oct 14, 2026, 00:28 UTC. The feed doesn't say whether it is over: check the official status page.

Read from Slack's own status feed when this page was built, Oct 17, 2026, 12:53 UTC. The paper rebuilds it with each edition, once a day at 10:00 UTC, so it is not live: for the state right now, open the official status page.

Recent incidents

The newest 3 the paper has read from the feed, each linking to Slack's own page for it. A state is as the feed gave it when last read.

  1. Oct 14, 2026, 00:28 UTCIncident: Single Sign On errors

    Some users may have experienced trouble logging into Slack. We identified the trigger and resolved the issue and restored access. We’re sorry for the disruption.

  2. Oct 12, 2026, 17:03 UTCIncident: Slack for iOS closing unexpectedly when opening channels

    We've rolled out an updated version of the Slack iOS app to all impacted customers. Channels now open without the app closing unexpectedly. Users who are still experiencing this issue should update the Slack IOS app from the app store Store to resolve it.We apologize for the inco…

  3. Oct 1, 2026, 18:59 UTC as last read Oct 8, 2026Incident: Free Plan Customers Are Experiencing Message Failures

    A messaging integration briefly caused some free-plan workspaces to exceed their daily messaging limit, blocking them from sending messages. We took action to lift the sending block for all affected free-plan workspaces, and have confirmed messaging is now restored. We apologize…

Slack in the paper

  1. GitHub ChangelogOct 16, 2026Multi-repository support and other improvements for GitHub in Slack and Teams
  2. Slack statusOct 12, 2026Incident: Slack for iOS closing unexpectedly when opening channels
  3. LangChainOct 7, 2026What's New in Managed Deep Agents: schedules, per-run configuration, and Slack reactions
  4. RailwayOct 5, 2026Railway Agent now available in Slack and Discord
  5. Grafana · YouTubeSep 30, 2026Incident Response Management with Grafana Cloud IRM, Grafana Assistant, and Slack (Demo)
  6. AWS Cloud OperationsSep 29, 2026Automate RCA across ServiceNow, Dynatrace and Slack with AWS DevOps Agent
  7. AWS DevOpsSep 29, 2026Building a Slack-powered AI development agent with Kiro CLI and headless authentication
  8. GitHub ChangelogSep 25, 2026Updates to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams