The number of Discord servers dropped on Monday afternoon as Discord announced a "partial exit" of its chat and video program. In a statement on its status page, Discord said it was "a series of fatal errors" that caused "most" of the servers to be fine. It expects the app to remain unavailable while the work is in progress.
Shortly after the company took over about a 20% increase in its server load, servers started to decline. About 5:30 p.m. ET, Discord tweeted it was "jinxed" itself, and was aware of server connection issues. The company is investigating an issue that caused some Discord servers to be unavailable. Some servers don't seem to be interested in getting out, even though users report an increase in API errors.
People are likely to move to Discord, which has recently expanded its Go Live broadcast and screen sharing limit from 10 to 50 people, as communities around the world are encouraged to stay at home trying. to combat the spread of COVID-19. On Monday, Microsoft's chat tool, Microsoft Teams, went online as the European work day began.
Chat services, such as Discord and Microsoft Teams, will continue to be important for people to connect remotely as they have been encouraged to isolate them.
