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by abe-101 1582 days ago
Down for me. Using the browser.
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mirekrusin 1582 days ago
Browser fails with the same message:

  Something’s gone awry and we’re having trouble loading your workspace.

  Sorry we can’t be more specific – this is one of those cases where we don’t know what’s gone wrong either. A restart of Slack might help, and you can always contact us.
ps. restart of slack in browser? wtf?
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jerf 1582 days ago
"ps. restart of slack in browser? wtf?"

In all seriousness, since I'm sure a lot of people don't know this, use SHIFT-CTRL-r. That instructs the browser to reload everything, ignoring cached resources. This can occasionally "restart" a web page that even a reload or loading the URL in the URL bar again is not sufficient for. Slack is one of those things I've seen it work on.

However, SHIFT-CTRL-r isn't enough now.

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jon-wood 1582 days ago
Somewhat OT, but I love the phrasing "Something's gone awry", so much more elegant than the usual "Oops, we dun made a bad".
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gruez 1582 days ago
>restart of slack in browser

most people IME use the slack app, in which case "restart" makes sense.

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mirekrusin 1582 days ago
Yes, I know.
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CyanLite2 1582 days ago
The desktop app is Electron, or something similar.
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chefandy 1582 days ago
Yeah— it's Electron. They made a big deal about moving away from their native client code bases a few years ago.
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