

The company bringing in its “entire on-call response team” is reassuring for Discord users. 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. We have out entire on-call response team online and responding to the issue.ĭiscord has over 150 million active users, so this API outage is sure to upset a lot of people.

We have identified the underlying issue with the API outage, but are dealing with a secondary issue on one of our database clusters. In the Discord client, the company explained what’s happening right now in fairly vague terms:

We are beginning to raise the login rate limit to allow users to reconnect.” The status page says, ” The database is healthy again and our internal error rate has fallen to nominal levels. We continue to work to bring the rest of the users back online.” Update, 1/26/22 3:32 pm Eastern: At 3:39 p.m., Discord solved the problem and began slowly letting users back onto the service. Update, 1/26/22 4:09 pm Eastern: According to Discord’s status page, “More than half of Discord users are back online and working normally. Update, 1/26/22 5:13 pm Eastern: Discord is back online.
