Bluesky skilled a significant outage on Thursday night that lasted round an hour.
On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed wouldn’t load in any respect, simply exhibiting a spinning loading circle. I noticed one thing comparable with the cell app; I might log in, however after I did, the feed didn’t present. Different Verge colleagues had been additionally experiencing points. Now, although, it appears to be like like issues have totally recovered.
In a 6:55PM ET message on its standing web page, Bluesky stated that that there have been “main PDS networking issues” and that “we’re investigating a significant outage with Bluesky hosted PDS cases.” In a 7:38PM ET message, it stated that “we’ve recognized a possible root trigger and are rolling out a repair to the Bluesky PDS fleet.”
At 7:54PM ET, Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee stated that “we’re again” and that Bluesky is “nonetheless clearing out the state of affairs.” Bluesky’s standing web page additionally says that every one programs are operational.
Bluesky didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In November, Bluesky had some points with slow-loading feeds and notifications as a result of one in all its web suppliers had downtime due to a minimize fiber cable. That outage occurred on what Bluesky stated on the time was its “highest site visitors day ever.”
Updates, April twenty fourth: Bluesky stated it was rolling out a repair, and now it seems the location is again to regular.