You too you have been logged out of Spotify when were you going to put on some music? Or are you one of those been unable to connect to chat with your friends on Discord when you have tried repeatedly in the last few minutes? Well, as I’m sure you’ve already imagined, it’s not just “your device thing”.
Indeed: at this time, two of the most popular online services on the Internet are inaccessible. And, unlike in other simultaneous crashes of large platforms, doesn’t seem to be the fault of any massive DNS misconfiguration problem (such as the one that affected Facebook services in October) or AWS malfunction (Amazon Web Services, cloud provider of many other platforms).
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Discord: API Issues
The first to suffer performance problems, around 7:15 p.m., was Discord. It all started with a sudden “increase in push notifications and API errors”, and attempts to fix this by rebooting systems have only made it worse, resulting in crashes.
As they have published on discordstatus.com:
“While monitoring this problem, there has been a new one that has caused a major API break. Our engineers are working to correct this situation.”
On their Twitter they have told it more gracefully; at 19:26 have tweeted a single “Time to get out everybody”:
time to go outside everyone
— Discord (@discord) March 8, 2022
Spotify: “We’re looking into it”
A few minutes later, around 7:30 p.m. Spanish peninsular time, the popular Swedish music streaming and podcast service Spotify has also experienced a massive drop worldwide. In your case, the web version is still active, but it is impossible to log in to it.
The company has not made the origin of the problem public for now, nor has it revealed when it expects the platform to operate normally again and all its users can continue listening to their favorite music.
In fact, the last we know of them was a tweet from before the system went down completely in which they clarify that “something is wrong, and we are investigating it; thanks for your reports”:
Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it. Thanks for your reports!
— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) March 8, 2022