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It's not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down | TechCrunch
In Brief Posted: 10:11 AM PDT · April 16, 2026 Image Credits:Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack. According to the social network’s status page, the issues began around 2:42 a.m. ET time on Thursday and have continued since. ScreenshotImage Credits:screenshot of Bluesky Currently, the Bluesky site and app will load at times, slowly, and other times will throw error messages. For instance, switching to a particular feed within the app displays a message that says “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 problem, though users’ own personal feeds may launch. Other times, like when trying to visit a user’s profile, the site will just display an error message, forcing you to refresh and try again. ScreenshotImage Credits:screenshot of Bluesky Bluesky protocol engineer Bryan Newbold remarked around 3:46 a.m. ET, “oof, our services are getting pretty hard tonight.” The company has not officially shared what’s causing the slowdown or provided an estimated time for a fix. Bluesky has not yet responded to a request for comment. The service disruptions are impacting Bluesky, but other communities running their own infrastructure on the underlying protocol that powers the decentralized social network appear to be functioning for the time being. ScreenshotImage Credits:Bluesky screenshot Topics Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Latest in Security
Is Bluesky down? Here's what we know. - Tech - me.mashable.com
Bluesky appears to be down, with users reporting issues with the social media platform on Thursday.Often seen as the alternative to Elon Musk's X, Bluesky was not working as usual in the early hours, with Downdetector identifying a thousand-strong spike in reported issues with the app and site around 6:30 a.m. ET. (Disclosure: DownDetector and Mashable are both owned by the same company, Ziff Davis.)At 6:42 a.m., Bluesky's own service status page reported acknowledgment of the issue, saying it was "investigating an incident" and confirming "some systems down.""We are starting to see some early recovery, but many users and services are still impacted," a post reads.At the time of writing, Mashable cannot access the site properly (we only see the Bluesky butterfly logo), and we have reached out to Bluesky for further information.UPDATE: Apr. 16, 2026, 11:40 AM UTC Bluesky appears to be working again, both on the app and web, though we're still seeing loading issues.This story is developing...
Bluesky down: Twitter competitor not working amid major outage
Bluesky has gone down in what appears to be a major outage. The X competitor, which surged in popularity in the wake of Elon Musk's purchase of what was then Twitter, is refusing to let users ...
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