Is Discord down?
Live status for Discord (https://discord.com)
Last 24 hours
Loading…In the 24 hours before 2026-07-17 (UTC), Discord answered 96 of our 96 checks — 100% uptime with an average response of 154ms.
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About Discord outages
Discord is a voice, video, and text chat platform organized around servers. Its real-time nature makes outages obvious immediately — messages stop delivering, voice channels drop, and the app shows endless "connecting" spinners.
Discord publishes official incident updates at its status page — worth checking alongside our live test above.
What to do when Discord is down
- Try discord.com in a browser instead of the desktop or mobile app, since the web client sometimes stays connected during app-specific gateway problems.
- Check discordstatus.com's component list, which separates the real-time gateway, voice servers, and CDN for attachments and emoji into distinct tracked services.
- Update the desktop app to its latest version, since Discord periodically requires a client update before it will reconnect to the gateway.
- Check whether images and file attachments fail to load while text messages send fine, since Discord's CDN is a separate system from message delivery.
Discord alternatives to use in the meantime
For urgent coordination while Discord is down, a group text thread, Signal group, or Slack workspace can substitute temporarily if your community already has an alternate channel set up. Voice calls can move to Zoom or a phone call for smaller groups. None replicate Discord's persistent server structure, so most communities simply wait rather than migrate for short outages.
Discord FAQ
Why is Discord stuck on "Connecting"?
An endless connecting screen usually means Discord’s gateway (the real-time connection service) is having problems, which Discord tracks publicly on its status page. If the gateway is healthy, a VPN, firewall, or DNS issue on your side is the next suspect.
Why does Discord voice keep cutting out while text works?
Voice traffic runs through regional voice servers that are separate from text messaging, so voice can fail alone. Switching your server’s voice region (or waiting out the regional incident) typically resolves it — the problem is rarely your microphone or network.
Is Discord down for everyone or just me?
We test Discord (https://discord.com) live from our own servers. If our check succeeds but you still can't connect, the outage is probably local to you — try another network or device, clear your cache, or check Discord's official status channels.
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