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SPOFs, smh. Oh, the irony that they call communities "servers".

• jackson1442 3y ago
  On the developer side they call them "guilds," fortunately. Interestingly it's somewhat common for failures like this to only affect a few guilds at a time (though there are of course catastrophic failures from time to time).
  • yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    > Interestingly it's somewhat common for failures like this to only affect a few guilds at a time (though there are of course catastrophic failures from time to time). In fairness, if I was running a service like this, guilds or whatever would map to actual servers striped across multiple failure domains (albeit not 1:1).
    • jackson1442 3y ago
      Yeah, it’s just disappointingly common for services like this to fully fail out during events like this, maybe not even due to the servers being down but because the client doesn’t have failure resistance built in or something similar.
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• hipadev23 3y ago
  They definitely aren’t channels. They’re more like a namespace. You can have multiple actual channels within a server namespace. And this design, despite technical SPOF risks, provides a massively better UI/UX than Slack for communities. Honestly discord is the best thing since IRC for non critical communication.
• d3nj4l 3y ago
  This is probably the biggest discord outage I've experienced in over a year, and I'm definitely not a casual user. Even in this outage it's not been too bad for me, and I can still access most of my chats and servers. I don't deny that it's a SPOF, but Discord is generally reliable and I'm happy with it.
• xboxnolifes 3y ago
  Is it really a SPOF if much of discord was still available? Only my smaller community servers went down, every large server (>1000 people) that I'm in stayed up. Direct calls/chats also still worked.
  • 3rd3 3y ago
    True, but all the small communities went does due to a single point of failure.