Both. "User has quit" doesn't seem to happen in Slack, because Slack doesn't report stuff like that. But the problem goes deeper - Slack often fails at very basic functionality, like failing deliver messages until much later or duplicating them. It's helloworldware with a lot of marketing money to pretend to be a technically sound solution.
The software, or the service? Because IRC is not typically associated with tremendous reliab...*
* User has quit due to excess flood