Discord operational after major outage in US


FILE PHOTO: Discord logo is seen in this illustration taken November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

(Reuters) - Social platform Discord said its service has been restored for after a major outage in the U.S. earlier on Monday.

The company's status page said that all systems were operational after it was down for over a hundred thousand users.

The outage eased to about 1,300 users reporting issues with the platform as of 7:50 p.m. ET, from its peak of about 102,277 incidents as of 6:20 p.m. ET, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Downdetector's numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.

(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala and Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)

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