Major outage leaves thousands without access to social media platform Bluesky

Reports start to dip – the blog is now being paused

This would indicate the issue has been resolved or is close to being resolved.

We’ll keep you updated here if there are any developments.

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What we know so far…

Thanks for following us. There is little information at present but here’s what we do know:

• Users started reporting problems accessing the app shortly after 11am (BST).
• Most of the reported problems are with the app – 63% – with 26% reporting issues with the website, and 11% having issues with the server connection.
• It is a global outage – with thousands affected in the US and hundreds in the UK.

We’ll keep you updated here.

Oops – Here is the error message ..

Users are reporting the following error message when trying to open the Bluesky app.