Update: Discord says it's 'seeing significant recovery' after a partial outage

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If you can't start up Discord, it's not just you.

The Discord logo is displayed on a smartphone screen and on a computer screen in Athens, Greece, on April 17, 2024. (Photo Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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At 12:08 pm Pacific on Friday, Discord announced that it was investigating errors preventing some users to connect to the chat application. After confirming that it had identified the issue, Discord issued an update at 1:16 pm Pacific saying that it was "seeing significant recovery" and was continuing to restore services.

In a follow-up at 1:19 pm Pacific, Discord reiterated that it's "beginning to see recovery on our systems and are continuing recovery operations to get the service into a fully healthy state."

If you already had Discord open, you may not notice the downtime, but those booting it up may be unable to connect.

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During the outage, we tested out Discord on our own machines and noticed that we get an error while trying to load friends' profiles, presumably due to the API issues. For some of our staff, those issues have since resolved, but if you still see "Unable to load parts of profile" while clicking someone's avatar or a familiar red "Messages failed to load " error, those issues might resolve as Discord continues to restore services.

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Wes Fenlon
Wes Fenlon
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Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014. Wes plays a little bit of everything, but he'll always jump at the chance to cover emulation and Japanese games.


When he's not obsessively optimizing and re-optimizing a tangle of conveyor belts in Satisfactory (it's really becoming a problem), he's probably playing a 20-year-old Final Fantasy or some opaque ASCII roguelike. With a focus on writing and editing features, he seeks out personal stories and in-depth histories from the corners of PC gaming and its niche communities. 50% pizza by volume (deep dish, to be specific).

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