” The concern has actually been recognized and a repair is being executed,” states Cloudflare. Discord also had “all engineers on deck investigating the issue,” and its own problems were connected to the Cloudflare outage.
Popular chat service Discord experienced extensive server outages today. The issues began at around 5PM ET, and lasted almost an hour. Patreon, Deliveroo, GitLab, Zendesk, Medium, and lots of other websites were also down, and Cloudflare acknowledged problems with its network affected different apps and websites.
Users are currently having problem detaching to Discord due to an upstream internet concern. Weve got all engineers on deck examining the problem pic.twitter.com/GvtxKanokl— Discord (@discord) July 17, 2020
Update, July 17th 5:55 PM ET: Article upgraded with confirmation from Cloudflare that a repair is rolling out.
This is the 2nd significant interruption for Discord this year, after the service was struck with connectivity issues back in March. Discord and other web-based interactions services have seen a significant boost in need and use given that the coronavirus pandemic began, as a growing number of families, pals, and neighborhoods rely on these apps to remain in touch.
