
Slack, the cloud-based chat platform used by individuals and companies around the world to communicate, collaborate, and say "holy shit" to each other when interesting or stupid things happen, is down. And yes, for those of you who, like us, use Slack for professional purposes, that means nobody's watching and you can now safely make with the goofing off.
It was impossible to chat at all within Slack when the troubles first began, and while that seems to have been cleared up for people who were logged in when the trouble started, those who were not cannot currently get in. Details, unfortunately, are not currently forthcoming: