It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down

In Brief

Bluesky’s website and app are inactive struggling connected Thursday aft experiencing work interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack.

According to the societal network’s status page, the issues began astir 2:42 a.m. ET clip connected Thursday and person continued since.

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Currently, the Bluesky tract and app volition load astatine times, slowly, and different times volition propulsion mistake messages.

For instance, switching to a peculiar provender wrong the app displays a connection that says “This provender is presently receiving precocious postulation and is temporarily unavailable. Please effort again later. Message from server: Rate Limit Exceeded.”

Popular feeds similar Discover oregon the authoritative Bluesky Team’s provender are seeing this problem, though users’ ain idiosyncratic feeds whitethorn launch.

Other times, similar erstwhile trying to sojourn a user’s profile, the tract volition conscionable show an mistake message, forcing you to refresh and effort again.

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Bluesky protocol technologist Bryan Newbold remarked around 3:46 a.m. ET, “oof, our services are getting beauteous hard tonight.”

The institution has not officially shared what’s causing the slowdown oregon provided an estimated clip for a fix.

Bluesky has not yet responded to a petition for comment.

The work disruptions are impacting Bluesky, but different communities moving their ain infrastructure connected the underlying protocol that powers the decentralized societal web look to beryllium functioning for the clip being.

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