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Discord Back Online After Thousands Reported Issues with the App

More than 22,000 users reported voice call issues and connection failures during the outage, which Discord engineers resolved within about an hour.

  • Thousands of Discord users reported widespread connection failures on Wednesday, disrupting voice calls and API access across the communication platform as reports flooded in.
  • Many users encountered the persistent "Awaiting Endpoint" error, which appears when the app cannot reach the voice server assigned to a call, preventing connections from completing.
  • Downdetector reports spiked at 3:19 p.m. Eastern time with more than 22,000 complaints, with over three-quarters of users reporting voice call issues, 18 percent app problems, and 4 percent login failures.
  • A Discord spokesperson told Newsweek about 6:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday that the company mitigated the cause, stating, "Users should now be able to connect, and we're working to prevent the issue from recurring."
  • Engineers continued investigating residual impacts to voice connectivity around 20 minutes after the initial update, noting there may be temporary issues with other features while working to accelerate recovery.
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Discord back online after thousands reported issues with the app

Discord, the popular communication platform, reported an issue affecting voice calls on Wednesday. (Adobe Stock)

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The communication platform Discord is struggling with a serious disturbance. Users worldwide can no longer connect to servers. Since about 21:14 CEST, the messages have been accumulated on fault portals. The platform in Germany alone records more than 17,000 messages on all faults, in the USA it is even more than 20,000 on Downdetector. The Voice Chat is particularly affected: Users report that when trying to join a voice channel, only the messa…

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King5 News broke the news in Seattle, United States on Wednesday, March 25, 2026.
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