A major outage has reportedly struck Cloudflare, shutting down the popular chat service Discord.
Patreon, Deliveroo, GitLab, Zendesk, Medium, and many other sites were also down,
According to the service, users are having trouble connecting to Discord because of an “upstream internet issue.” They are currently working on a fix.
Users are currently having trouble disconnecting to Discord due to an upstream internet issue. We've got all engineers on deck investigating the issue pic.twitter.com/GvtxKanokl
— Discord (@discord) July 17, 2020
Cloudflare acknowledged issues with its network affected various apps and sites.
“The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” says Cloudflare. Discord also had “all engineers on deck investigating the issue,” and its own problems were related to the Cloudflare outage.
“The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” says Cloudflare. Discord also had “all engineers on deck investigating the issue,” and its own problems were related to the Cloudflare outage.
This is the second major outage for Discord this year, after the service was hit with connectivity issues back in March. Discord and other web-based communications services have seen a significant increase in demand and usage since the corona virus pandemic began, as more and more friends, families, and communities turn to these apps to stay in touch.
