Discord Goes Down for Over 100,000 U.S. Users — Service Fully Restored by Nightfall

On Monday, September 8, Discord experienced a major outage in the U.S., with more than 90,000 users affected at the peak of the disruption, according to Downdetector data. By 6:19 p.m. ET, reports of service issues rose to about 93,800.

The situation escalated to over 100,000 incident reports at around 6:20 p.m. ET.

Discord’s status page acknowledged problems with "guilds" (servers) being inaccessible for some members and confirmed widespread availability issues.

By 7:50 p.m. ET, the number of affected users had dropped to around 1,300, and the platform confirmed that all systems were back online.

What Details

Impact Over 100K U.S. users unable to access Discord during peak.

Cause Widespread server/guild availability issues.

Recovery Systems fully restored by late evening.

Why It Matters

Scale of Disruption: The outage affected a vast number of users, emphasizing Discord's critical role in communication for gamers, communities, and professionals.

Rapid Recovery: Discord’s engineering team acted swiftly to resolve the issue and restore functionality within hours.

Reliability Reminder: Even major platforms can experience sudden downtime—highlighting the importance for users to monitor status pages and prepare for temporary disruptions.