Discord resolves widespread outage caused by ‘unusual traffic spikes’

Discord has come back online after an hours-long outage, the instant messaging service confirmed on Friday morning. The company said the outage was due to the platform experiencing “unusual traffic spikes.” The issues began at around 6 AM ET/3 AM PT, according to third-party web monitoring service Downdetector.

“We’re experiencing unusual traffic spikes that lead to users being temporary blocked and we’re working on mitigating this issue,” the company’s status page read this morning.

Users had taken to social media to report that they were unable to log into the service, noting that they were seeing a “Sorry, you have been blocked” message. Those who were able to log in reported that they were unable to see their messages.

It seems that the issues are related to Cloudflare, which is currently experiencing problems with its Dashboard and API service and undergoing scheduled maintenance.

Update 09/29/2023 12 PM ET/9 AM PT: The article was updated to note that the issues have been resolved.