Discord, Spotify, Wikipedia, and other web services are experiencing outages on Tuesday, according to various user reports, social media accounts, and the website Down Detector. Discord’s outage began around 12 p.m. EST, causing disruptions on the popular chat app.
“We are aware of an issue causing message failures and are working on a fix,” Discord said through its Twitter account. Discord followed that tweet with some advice: “time to go outside everyone.”
We’re aware of an issue causing message failures and are working on a fix.
Apologies for the disruption & thx for hanging tight! https://t.co/rq97JXSEFv
— Discord (@discord) March 8, 2022
Discord users have been unable to log in to the service and report problems sending messages.
According to an incident report, Discord began investigating “API Errors and Push Notification Errors,” at 12:16 p.m. EST, and attempted to identify and remediate the issues. At 1:08 p.m. EST, the incident report noted a “root cause was also detected in our streaming service,” which required a controlled restart that would have caused a “temporary disruption of streaming.” However, “a new issue has occurred causing a major outage of the API.” As of 1:29 p.m. EST, they are continuing to investigate the outage issue.
Discord has already experienced multiple outages in 2022. This includes one as recently as February, as well as a two-hour outage in January, which prevented users from joining calls or using chat functions. Discord also experienced a major outage in November, along with Spotify, Snapchat, and Etsy, which were all affected by Google Cloud issues.
