New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Slack, the widely used workplace messaging platform, experienced a significant outage on Wednesday, affecting thousands of users globally. The disruption, which began at approximately 9:57 PM IST, prevented many from accessing key features such as messaging, workflows, threads, and API-related functions.

As the outage persisted, social media users responded with a mix of concern and humour. One X user, @jarvis_best, joked: "Is Slack down or did I get fired?"

Another user exaggerated the impact, writing: "Slack being down is a tech startup's 9/11."

While many turned to humour to cope, the outage caused considerable disruption for businesses dependent on Slack for day-to-day operations. The exact cause of the techni...