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

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."

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