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We may still have «issues interacting with bots using slash commands» for a short time, Discord says.
This article was updated with the latest information at 2:25 pm Pacific.
Discord says it has almost completely resolved a «widespread API outage» that blocked users from logging into the chat platform for hours on Wednesday. According to the company, login rate limits have been removed, and «Discord is almost back to normal.»
Finally, we can all go back to sharing memes and annoying each other by talking too much during tense FPS skirmishes.
«Over the next hour, some Discord servers may continue to see some issues interacting with bots using slash commands,» said the company. «As part of resolving the incident, we needed to reduce load on our databases and we turned down some parts of our slash command system.»
Discord first reported the outage Wednesday morning at 11:49 am Pacific. At around noon, it said it had identified two issues, one with the API and another with one of its «database clusters.» At that point, Discord limited the rate at which users could log in.
At 12:30 pm Pacific, Discord said that its systems were healthy again, but it wasn’t until after 2 pm that access was restored for all users.
«We are going to complete our internal postmortem process to really dig in and understand exactly what happened here, but we really apologize for the inconvenience if you were unable to login today or had other issues,» said the company.
You can follow Discord’s server status updates here. We’ll update this article if problems persist.
Hey @ everyone connection should be fully restored now! Hope you touched a little grass while we were out. Thx for the patience. https://t.co/smYJJdJm3e pic.twitter.com/fx35pnU3eWJanuary 26, 2022
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