Is Discord down? This question arose on Wednesday as thousands of users reported widespread connection failures, particularly affecting voice chat features. Many encountered the frustrating ‘Awaiting Endpoint’ error, which prevents users from connecting to voice servers.
According to Downdetector, there were over 22,000 outage reports at 3:19 p.m. Eastern time, with the number dropping to more than 7,000 reports by 4:34 p.m. Eastern time. Notably, 65% of these issues were related to voice chat functionality.
Discord acknowledged the outage, stating, “We’re aware of an issue that impacted voice connectivity on Discord and have identified and mitigated the cause.” The company’s engineers reported degraded performance around 3:20 p.m. Eastern time, prompting an investigation into the connectivity problems.
The ‘Awaiting Endpoint’ error typically occurs during major outages, networking issues, or server-side failures. Users took to social media to express their frustrations, with one user asking, “Is anyone else having issues with Discord right now? It just says Awaiting Endpoint when trying to connect to a voice channel.” Another user shared, “Is Discord dead tonight? Been stuck on awaiting endpoint for voice chat on both mobile and PC.”
As of 5:11 p.m. Eastern time, users continued to report issues, although Discord indicated that they were working to prevent the problem from recurring. The outage primarily affected voice services, while text and other features appeared to function normally.
Discord’s proactive response to the situation highlights their commitment to maintaining service reliability. The company is actively investigating the issue to ensure that users can connect seamlessly in the future.
Details remain unconfirmed regarding the exact cause of the outage, but Discord’s team is focused on resolving the connectivity problems as quickly as possible.