Bluesky is back up after a major outage

Bluesky experienced a large outage connected Thursday evening that lasted astir an hour.

On my desktop browser, my Bluesky provender wouldn’t load astatine all, conscionable showing a spinning loading circle. I saw thing akin with the mobile app; I could log in, but erstwhile I did, the provender didn’t show. Other Verge colleagues were besides experiencing issues. Now, though, it looks similar things person afloat recovered.

In a 6:55PM ET connection connected its presumption page, Bluesky said that that determination were “major PDS networking problems” and that “we are investigating a large outage with Bluesky hosted PDS instances.” In a 7:38PM ET message, it said that “we person identified a apt basal origin and are rolling retired a hole to the Bluesky PDS fleet.”

At 7:54PM ET, Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee said that “we are back” and that Bluesky is “still clearing retired the situation.” Bluesky’s status page besides says that each systems are operational.

Bluesky didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

In November, Bluesky had immoderate issues with slow-loading feeds and notifications due to the fact that 1 of its net providers had downtime because of a chopped fibre cable. That outage happened connected what Bluesky said at the time was its “highest postulation time ever.”

Updates, April 24th: Bluesky said it was rolling retired a fix, and present it appears the tract is backmost to normal.