Slack is retiring its status account on X Illustration: Alex Castro / The VergeSlack is retiring its status account on X that previously shared updates about issues and outages on the platform, the company announced on Thursday. “We made the decision to retire the @SlackStatus account in order to consolidate our communications around incidents and focus resources on those most widely us…

Slack is down, it’s not just you Slack has now acknowledged the issues and is investigating the cause. | Illustration: Alex Castro / The VergeSlack, the workplace chat app, is having some issues this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. Reports began spiking on DownDetector at around 5AM ET and the service’s status dashboard acknowledged the issues with a post…