Hundreds of users were affected by online disruption as Bluesky’s official status page showed a “some systems down” status.
The outage began early this morning, with many finding their Home and Explore feeds completely broken.
The incident took place in the eastern region of the United States, while crowd-supported status sites recorded a clear increase in complaints about the app, feeds and its timelines.
The outage appears to be affecting many users as the app returns messages such as “Unable to load feeds” and “Unable to connect. Please check your internet connection and try again.”
On the other hand, Bluesky’s own numbers still showed strong overall uptime, making the problem more apparent: a service can look stable on paper and still be disruptive to users in a particular region.
Let’s find out where the outage is happening and causing internet outages for hundreds of users.
At the time of writing, Bluesky said while updating the status of the outage, “We are starting to see some early recovery, but many users and services are still affected.”
The outages have affected the eastern regions of the US since morning and linked the outage to a problem with an upstream service provider.
Bluesky added that it was working with that carrier to restore full service as soon as possible.
However, at this time, Bluesky’s official status page still marks the incident as ongoing.
