This is becoming so often it's embarrassing really.
The way it's handled in the app is also not ideal to say the least - only indication that something is wrong is that the text you are trying to send is greyed out.
True, it's really bad UX that cost me and a coworker each 30 minutes this morning. Nobody expects the backend to be completely reliable, but the client should be trustworthy when it comes to reporting the status of the backend.
Yep, and from the status message, you can get to Twitter inside the Slack client and read memes directly from Elon Musk's timeline instead of going through your organization's dedicated meme channel.