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Having problems with Discord now? Check the current statusUpdates (8)
- May 8, 2026, 10:38 PMIncreased API Errors
All critical functionalities have recovered for all users.
Discord ↗ - May 8, 2026, 09:47 PMIncreased API Errors
Users are able to connect to the platform, and we are working on recovering some features
Discord ↗ - May 8, 2026, 09:08 PMIncreased API Errors
We are continuing to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state
Discord ↗ - May 8, 2026, 08:19 PMIncreased API Errors
We are beginning to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state
Discord ↗ - May 8, 2026, 08:16 PMIncreased API Errors
We are seeing significant recovery at this time. We are continue to restore ancillary services and we are metering in traffic as users reconnect.
Discord ↗ - May 8, 2026, 07:56 PMIncreased API Errors
We are continuing to work to remediate the issues impacting availability for some Discord users. This is causing impact across our service, including logging in and sending messages.
Discord ↗ - May 8, 2026, 07:24 PMIncreased API Errors
We have identified the issue. Many users are unable to start their sessions at this time
Discord ↗ - May 8, 2026, 07:08 PMIncreased API Errors
We're investgating errors in our API systems.
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- Verify your own services recovered cleanly. Some upstream outages leave queues or caches in a degraded state, run smoke tests before declaring green internally.
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