More than 150 million people are regular users of Discord, an online community chat platform, but many people woke up on Friday to discover that they had seemingly been blocked from the platform.
Discord presented some users with a message that “sorry, you have been blocked,” and stated that Discord was “using a security service to protect itself from online attacks.”
The good news is that if you’re seeing this message, you likely haven’t been blacklisted by Discord.
Discord acknowledged the issues on Twitter, and said that “unusual traffic spikes” lead to users “being temporarily blocked.”
We are aware of an issue preventing users from accessing the app. Our team is on the case and investigating the issue! 🔎
Check our status page for more updates: https://t.co/ypt16TArbX pic.twitter.com/knuHoCbK0S
— Discord Support (@discord_support) September 29, 2023
We’re experiencing unusual traffic spikes that lead to users being temporarily blocked. Rest assured, our team is working on mitigating the issue.
Stay updated here: https://t.co/ypt16TArbX https://t.co/N0KteD6NQS
— Discord Support (@discord_support) September 29, 2023
There is a potential fix. If you bring up Discord and receive the block message, try pressing Control+R and the app will refresh itself. This allowed me back into Discord, but your mileage may vary.
For anyone who had Discord issues as a result of the Cloudflair outage. If you still see the blocked error press “Ctrl + R” with the discord client open and it should get you back in #discord pic.twitter.com/e0zPDWjsTJ
— Nastyfruit (@Nastyfruit1) September 29, 2023
Some people are not dealing with the outage very well:
⚠️ ATTENTION:
If you started up your Discord client and got this message, don’t worry.
You haven’t been banned either blocked, and Discord is not under some DDos attacks.
This is because Cloudflare (the biggest internet security provider) is down. pic.twitter.com/XPOVRFD3b6
— stablestream (@stablestream) September 29, 2023