On Friday, Discord faced a significant outage impacting thousands of users across the United States, particularly in major cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. Reports of issues surged to nearly 38,000 around 4 PM ET, with problems beginning around 2:45 PM ET. The company acknowledged the situation, stating at 12:08 PM Pacific time that it was investigating the errors affecting user connectivity. By 1:16 PM Pacific, Discord reported that it was seeing 'significant recovery' while continuing to stabilize the platform. Users encountered various issues, including loading failures and missing messages, with some receiving notifications like 'Unable to load parts of profile.' Although Discord is making progress in recovery, it has not provided a specific timeline for when all services will be fully restored.