{"id":783275,"date":"2026-05-09T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783275\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:26:16","slug":"discord-is-back-after-a-major-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783275\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord is back after a major outage."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted May 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Discord is back after a major outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">For more than an hour on Friday, many people were having trouble connecting to Discord, with the platform showing a message saying that there were \u201cincreased API errors.\u201d Discord confirmed it was investigating issues at 3:08PM ET, and by 6:38PM ET, <a href=\"https:\/\/discordstatus.com\/incidents\/4hpm4454hxtx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it reported<\/a> that all \u201ccritical functionalities have recovered for all users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><strong>Updates<\/strong>: Discord says the issues are resolved.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kqz8fh1\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/slack-upload-1778269131728.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" data-pswp-height=\"396\" data-pswp-width=\"1080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Discord outage error\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"x271pn0\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg 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