Discord, Spotify, and other services experiencing outages

According to user reports, social media accounts and the website Down Detector, Discord, Spotify and Wikipedia are all experiencing downtime on Tuesday. 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.”

Users of Discord have not been able to log into the service to report issues or send 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 experienced several outages as of 2022. One was experienced in February and another two hours ago. This prevented Discord users from joining chats or participating in calls. Discord, Spotify, Snapchat and Etsy were also affected by Google Cloud problems in November.