Discord is down

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Discord is experiencing a widespread outage, preventing users from connecting to the communications app. The outage started at around 2:45PM ET, and prevents users from joining calls or participating in text chats. “We are currently investigating a widespread API outage and are working to resolve this ASAP,” says the official Discord Twitter account. Discord is used widely by the gaming community, and currently has 150 million monthly active users. This latest outage appears to be affecting all users, with widespread reports of issues even connecting to the service. In a message in the Discord client, the company says: “We have identified the underlying issue with the API outage, but are dealing with a secondary issue on one of our... Continue reading…