Why Slack Needs Reconnect Happens
Stay Green On Slack keeps your status green using a captured Slack browser session — not a stored username and password. That session is what lets the tool send keep-alive signals on your behalf from the cloud.
Anything that invalidates that session from Slack's side breaks the connection. The most common causes are changing your Slack password, using "sign out of all sessions" from your Slack account settings, or a workspace admin revoking active sessions. When that happens, your dashboard shows "needs reconnect" because the session it was relying on no longer works.
The Fix
- Open Slack in Chrome, with the Stay Green extension installed, and make sure you're logged in normally.
- Go back to your Stay Green dashboard.
- Click reconnect — it captures a fresh session automatically.
- Your schedule and settings are unaffected and don't need to be re-entered.
The whole process just replaces the broken session with a working one. There's no reinstall or re-authorization beyond having an active, logged-in Slack tab open in Chrome for the extension to read from.
What Stays the Same
Reconnecting only refreshes the session token behind the scenes. Everything else on your account — your schedule, Vacation Mode setting, and holiday-country preference — stays exactly as it was. You're not starting over.
Will It Happen Again?
This isn't a common occurrence. Most sessions stay valid for a long time. It tends to come back around only if you regularly change your Slack password, or if your workspace enforces strict session-expiry policies that periodically log everyone out.