If you’ve had trouble accessing Bluesky this morning, you’re not alone. The social media platform has been experiencing intermittent interruptions to service on Thursday. That’s obvious from a glance at Downdetector, which shows thousands of user reports of issues with Bluesky starting at about 1:51 a.m. ET, and really kicking off at 2:21 a.m. ET. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Lifehacker parent company Ziff Davis.)
While my Bluesky feed does seem to be working at this time, there are still issues causing downtime for users and parts of the platform, including loading notifications. As of this article, Bluesky’s status page reads “We are investigating an incident with service in one of our [regions],” and “We are experiencing further issues. We appreciate your continued patience.” Bluesky had previously stated that the issue had been fixed, so the platform may be having trouble isolating the root cause of the problem.
What do you think so far?
To that point, it isn’t clear what exactly is causing this downtime across Bluesky. That said, this will likely be resolved in due time. Websites occasionally go down for one reason or another, and apart from an attack or catastrophic issue, the source is usually discovered relatively quickly, and a fix implemented shortly after. My guess is by some point today—perhaps by the time you read this article—Bluesky will be back up and running as usual.
