Bluesky’s web site and app are nonetheless struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service assault.
According to the social community’s standing web page, the problems started round 2:42 a.m. ET time on Thursday and have continued since.
Currently, the Bluesky web site and app will load at instances, slowly, and different instances will throw error messages.
For occasion, switching to a specific feed throughout the app shows a message that claims “This feed is currently receiving high traffic and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Message from server: Rate Limit Exceeded.”
Popular feeds like Discover or the official Bluesky Team’s feed are seeing this drawback, although customers’ personal private feeds could launch.
Other instances, like when attempting to go to a person’s profile, the positioning will just show an error message, forcing you to refresh and take a look at once more.
Bluesky protocol engineer Bryan Newbold remarked round 3:46 a.m. ET, “oof, our services are getting pretty hard tonight.”
Reached for remark, Bluesky solely pointed us to the standing.bsky.app web page and account (@standing.bsky.app) for updates. The firm did not touch upon the trigger or an ETA for a repair.
The service disruptions are impacting Bluesky, however different communities working their very own infrastructure on the underlying protocol that powers the decentralized social community look like functioning in the meanwhile.
Issues have continued into the afternoon on Thursday, as Bluesky’s standing web page says ” investigating an incident with service in one in every of our reginos [sic]” (That’s their typo, not ours).
