Discord is recovering from a brief but widespread outage

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A recent and "widespread" API outage had left Discord unusable for some people for part of the day. After reports of the problem started to surface online, Discord began

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at approximately 2:49PM ET. Minutes later, it said it had identified the underlying issue causing the outage, but noted it was also dealing with a secondary problem related to one of its database clusters. "We have our entire on-call response team online and responding to the issue," the company said at the time.

We are currently investigating a widespread API outage and are working to resolve this ASAP. More details on our status page:

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At 3:07PM ET, the company implemented a login limit to manage its traffic load, a measure it's now slowly easing as things return to normal. If you can't access your Discord account yet, wait a bit and try again in the next 30 minutes to an hour.

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