It’s been a while since we’ve talked, and I wanted to check in on how you’re doing. It seems like things have been going well. I’m glad to hear that you’re doing well, and I’m sorry that we haven’t talked in a while. I know that it’s been tough for both of us.
There’s a major outage taking place right now, and it’s affecting everyone’s favorite gaming chat service, Discord.
In the Discord client, the company explained what’s happening right now in fairly vague terms:
Discord has over 150 million active users, so this API outage is sure to upset a lot of people. Of course, these things happen, and it appears that Discord is doing everything it can to get the service back online as quickly as possible. The company bringing in its “entire on-call response team” is reassuring for Discord users.
— Discord (@discord) January 26, 2022
The outage was first reported at around 2:45 p.m. ET, as users said they were unable to join calls or participate in text chats—two of the primary reasons people use Discord in the first place. However, some users who were already in calls have reported that they were able to stay in them even with the outage.
“We have instituted a rate limit on logins to manage the traffic load. Users who are logged in are successfully using Discord at this point, and we will be slowly raising the limits here to allow more users in as we can. We expect this to be resolved in the next 15 minutes,” reads Discord’s status page in an update posted at 3:07 p.m. ET.
Following that update, Discord posted on its status page again at 3:21 p.m. ET, this time saying, “We are continuing to work through some issues with one of our database clusters. We are still rate limiting login traffic.” The company promised another update in 15 minutes.
We will update this article as we learn more about Discord’s February 26, 2022 outage.
