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Discord is down
- iameli 3y agoSomething seems to be knocking over one server at a time which is sort of fun. Having an end-of-the-world party on one of the remaining shards!
- yieldcrv 3y agoreminds me of being in a netsplit with a stranger in my IRC days
- spike021 3y agostill happens for some of us who remain on IRC
- branon 3y agoon IRC joking about how Discord was down ;)
- cratermoon 3y agoye olde net.split
- 3rd3 3y agoSPOFs, smh. Oh, the irony that they call communities "servers".
- jackson1442 3y agoOn the developer side they call them "guilds," fortunately. Interestingly it's somewhat common for failures like this to only affect a few guilds at a time (though there are of course catastrophic failures from time to time).
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> Interestingly it's somewhat common for failures like this to only affect a few guilds at a time (though there are of course catastrophic failures from time to time). In fairness, if I was running a service like this, guilds or whatever would map to actual servers striped across multiple failure domains (albeit not 1:1).
- jackson1442 3y agoYeah, it’s just disappointingly common for services like this to fully fail out during events like this, maybe not even due to the servers being down but because the client doesn’t have failure resistance built in or something similar.
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- hipadev23 3y agoThey definitely aren’t channels. They’re more like a namespace. You can have multiple actual channels within a server namespace. And this design, despite technical SPOF risks, provides a massively better UI/UX than Slack for communities. Honestly discord is the best thing since IRC for non critical communication.
- d3nj4l 3y agoThis is probably the biggest discord outage I've experienced in over a year, and I'm definitely not a casual user. Even in this outage it's not been too bad for me, and I can still access most of my chats and servers. I don't deny that it's a SPOF, but Discord is generally reliable and I'm happy with it.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoIs it really a SPOF if much of discord was still available? Only my smaller community servers went down, every large server (>1000 people) that I'm in stayed up. Direct calls/chats also still worked.
- 3rd3 3y agoTrue, but all the small communities went does due to a single point of failure.
- corytheboyd 3y agoWow I noticed a visual indicator in the app just now that a server was unreachable due to issues with discord. It’s not every day the actual app ui directly and in real time communicates issues with the core service. Kudos? Discord is also incredibly annoying with their nitro upsells, but I guess I’m using it for free, so a little advertising is fine :)
- Justsignedup 3y agoAre they actually profitable? I thought their big challenge was getting in on the Slack market, because kids are great but they don't really pay.
- thot_experiment 3y agoAnecdotally I play games with a lot of "kids", and most of them pay for nitro. Obviously subcultural bias but it seems like it's pretty common to me, and I can imagine their costs might be below average since they're not super growth obsessed?
- Macha 3y agoDiscord are definitely growth obsessed. They've tried to glom onto trends before like stages to copy clubhouse, they've tried to get into game retail to chase the epic store and shut that down, and now they're going after the WhatsApp/signal userbase by replacing usernames and the latest update opted people in to being searchable by their contact lists.
- rightbyte 3y agoThis seems like a way to water down their niche? I.e. isolated community forums? Maybe the end game is being TikTok too ...
- Macha 3y agoDiscord is a VC funded company, so it's not enough to rule a niche. Their VCs are going to push them to chasing a larger userbase, even when that's at the expense of their current userbase. I think we're definitely on the start of the enshittification curve with Discord by now.
- ibrahimsow1 3y agoDc down!!!
- 4ggr0 3y agothe app started reporting one server as being offline due to an outage, then failed to load completely, and then only 4 out of 7 servers are online. now nothing loads anymore, at all :D
- Adamantcheese 3y agoWhat's the term for when a failing service causes the users of said service to use it more to complain about it failing? Because it sure seems like that's happening to some extent.
- greyface- 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem
- Adamantcheese 3y agoNot exactly what I was thinking of, because that's more on a local system than at web scale. Something else, I'm sure it's related though, kinda like a crowd crush?
- cratermoon 3y agothundering herd really only happens at 'web scale', whatever that means. There was an article on HN recently showing how even a distributed/replicated system can fall to the thundering herd.
- oneepic 3y agoIn gaming terminology, those users got taunted. [1] https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Types_of_Crowd_Control#Taunt https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Types_of_Crowd_Contr... or [2] https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Taunt https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Taunt
- shamushtii 3y agocan't even log in to discord...
- shamushtii 3y agocan't even log in... how long till they fix it?
- tweedledot 3y agoService will resume in about 15 minutes.
- shamushtii 3y agoAlright, good to hear. I'll wait.
- shamushtii 3y agoeeek still down
- ketralnis 3y agoI've never understood why hacker news needs to feature every outage that ever happens
- freediver 3y agoPeople tend to come here to check status, it is easier
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoBecause a significant portion of the time the service has some developers or senior staff who are HN members and they show up here while triage is happening to provide real time insight.
- jahsome 3y agoTo learn.
- freecodyx 3y agoDon’t push to prod on friday
- esotericimpl 3y ago[dead]
- jhgg 3y agowe are on it
- blitzar 3y agoF
- choppaface 3y agoboom! fixed
- DiscourseFan 3y agoI haven't used Discord in maybe 3 years now (I think longer?) I was one of the early, early adopters, with my own first name as my username. But I found it to be a rather suffocating, rather than liberatory, place, which simply reproduced the very social structures I experienced in the rest of the world; often, if it was the nexus of a certain social life, the extreme power which moderators weld to totally socially exclude someone was sickening, and the kinds of sexual exploitation that happens on the platform is merely a symptom of that, a symptom of a much wider social ill which birthed the platform as a whole--an overriding resentment for real-world sociality for being based in exclusionary institutions, transformed into an exclusionary architecture infinitely grander and more severe the further the users were separated by regular social institutions and geographic location, thus increasing the power of both the moderators, but, also and more essentially the owners of Discord, who, by establishing such an architecture sought for nothing but Absolute power--this, all, now just for profit of the VCs. However, such a severe system of domination has, at its core, just one single problem, the problem which we are seeing today: a mass outage, like this, must, by its nature, affect every user of the service. Mastadon, to note, does not have this problem--but even Mastadon, like Discord, relies on the electric grid and the system of production from which such a service is produced, which at all levels seeks to continuously generate and regenerate itself in all its social functions.
- okdood64 3y agoI don't know what kind of weirdass servers you hung out in... My experience has been nothing been 100% positive.
- DiscourseFan 3y ago>I don't know what kind of weirdass servers you hung out in... Not to be overly critical, but its the very use of the word "hang out" that really highlights what I was discussing. The spaces are designed to be totalizing, in the "real world" you could hang out at a friends house or the park or something, the latter is free and open, and you can come and go as you please. Discord servers, by their very design, are antithetical to that ethos. Like a bad parody of 19th century secret societies, first you must be admitted; then, once in, you are subjected to an immediate system of hierarchy, and potentially higher "inner circle" social spaces. The total control and hierarchization of social life, with widespread tools for monitoring and expulsion, where everything you do or say can be recorded and tracked, is part and parcel of the architecture of Discord. This isn't a private server you or your friends own, its a space designed to extract profit for a mass corporation by keeping you on it as long as possible and subtily encouraging microtransactions with via social pressure: Reddit has the same model. And the longer you stay on Discord, the more of your social life is exclusively on Discord, and the more opportunities arise for Discord to exploit you for profit. It is highly insidious, it is no different in form or structure from any other social media website: even HN suffers in this regard, since it has small incentives to keep you returning and commenting and replying, and passively exposes you to advertisements for various services offered by YC startups. At least here there is something more than just that, but only 4chan achieves an absolutely democratizing end as a place of almost pure excess. But the latter isn't very good for actual discussions, so I come here.