It looks like every gamer’s favorite communication tool is having issues, as Discord down reports have surfaced this November 6, and the company has acknowledged it as well.
Discord Down With Message Issues This Nov. 6:
Update: All systems operational per Discord, and here’s the official message.
The underlying issue was due to an operation we performed on our authentication database cluster which resulted in too much reduced capacity in the database cluster. We performed some load shedding to enable some traffic to recover, but due to the nature of this cluster’s topology and the incident, only about 50% of our userbase was able to get back online in the interim and we had to wait for the maintenance to complete on the impacted database nodes before we were able to fully restore the service.
We’ll be following up internally with a postmortem and will plan to publish a public blog post describing the incident and our followups to ensure that this issue cannot recur. Our goal is that Discord just works when you need it; we know many of you (and all of us!) rely on Discord. Please accept our apologies and thank you for your patience today as we worked through this incident.
Downdetector has reported a massive uptick of queries from people just now:
The official Discord Status page has also acknowledged the outage.
Investigating – We are aware of an issue impacting Discord latency and errors. The team is online and investigating now.
Same as always, once we know more about this, we’ll update the article. If you can somehow send and receive messages normally. leave a comment below where you’re messaging from and which platform as well. We can confirm that both mobile and desktop versions are having issues.
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Yeah it’s down. For everyone.