Source: Discord
What you need to know
- Discord is experiencing a major outage for its service.
- The company announced that the issue is related to an API.
- They say that half of users are now back up and running.
Update, January 26 (6:45 pm ET): Discord says that the service is now fully operational.
Discord, the popular communication service, is currently experiencing a major outage.
The company announced on its Twitter account that the service is currently experiencing a "widespread API outage." The company says that they are working on a solution but does not have an idea of when service will be fully restored.
We are currently investigating a widespread API outage and are working to resolve this ASAP.
On the Discord Status page, it appears that the issue has been going on for at least a few hours at this point. The company says that about half of users should be able to get back on the service without an issue and that they will continue to update as more users are able to gain access again.
More than half of Discord users are back online and working normally. We continue to work to bring the rest of the users back online.
We'll be sure to update this article once Discord has the entire issue resolved.
Update, January 26 (6:45 pm ET) — Discord says that the service is now fully operational.
In an update on Twitter, Discord has announced that it has resolved the API outage that took the service down for its users. The company said that the service should be operating as normal now.

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