Discord restores critical functions after outage caused by API errors

11 articles · Updated · The Verge · May 8

The platform said at 6:38pm ET that recovery was complete, after first confirming it was investigating the disruption at 3:08pm ET on Friday.
For more than an hour, many users struggled to connect as Discord displayed a notice warning of increased API errors affecting service.
Earlier reports said tens of thousands of users were hit, with app access, messaging and logins among the main problems across major US cities.

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