On Wednesday afternoon, discord, the game chat and app community, had a massive crash that prevented many users from connecting to the Internet. The outage began at around 14:45 EST (3:45 a.m. China time), and not only could the voice call not connect, but the text chat could not be used normally.
"We are currently investigating this massive API outage and are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible." Discord official tweeted.
After 3 hours, Dicord's problem seems to have been resolved. Its account posted a tweet that read "Connections should now be fully restored" at 17:19 p.m. EST (6:19 a.m. China time).
Discord is widely used by the gaming community and currently has 150 million monthly active users. The outage seems to have had an impact on most users, and the news of their connection disruption has sparked a lot of discussion on the web.
Discord said in a message from their client:
"We've identified the underlying issue of API outages, but are dealing with minor issues on a DB cluster. We have an entire standby response team online and urgently fix this time. ”
After the outage ended, a message was posted on its status page saying, "We have completely removed all rate limits and Discord is almost back to normal." It also notes that "in the next hour, some Discord servers may find some problems with interacting with the bot using 'slash' commands." As part of resolving the incident, we needed to reduce the load on the database, and we turned off some parts of the slash command system. ”
Discord last had a brief outage in November, when a problem with Google Cloud caused the communications app to crash. The recent downtime was marked as a "major outage" on Discord's status page, which shows that the crash affected the normal use of a considerable number of users.
Discord has been quietly building its own bot-based application platform for the past few years and plans to release new app discovery features in the spring. Bots are an important part of the Discord experience, and more than 30% of Discord servers use them. From playing music to dice, Discord's robots can play a very interesting role in the process of user chat and communication.
But at the same time, the use of robots has also brought a lot of trouble to the operation of Discord, and one of the important influences comes from the oppression of Discord databases by robots. In order to process the large amount of information generated in the use of the robot, Discord has introduced a number of technologies (such as gateway intent recognition, reminder management, etc.) to ensure the normal operation of the database. And this crash, on behalf of Discord, still has a long way to go in terms of technical support for robots.
On QQ, there was also a "big boom" period for robots. But in 2020, a large number of robots were banned by Tencent. In July of that year, the author of Morrowind Robot said that he was summoned and detained by the Suqian police for "illegal intrusion into the computer system" due to Tencent's indictment. Since then, QQ has continued to take measures to ban robots.
Today, there is little trace of robots on QQ.
Leifeng Network