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Thousands of Discord users reported widespread connection failures on Wednesday, with many encountering the persistent “Awaiting Endpoint” error that prevents the platform from connecting to its voice servers.
The outage triggered a surge of real‑time reports across multiple tracking services, including StatusGator and Downdetector, where users noted the app failing to load, voice calls refusing to initiate, and connections stalling mid‑session. According to Discord’s official status page, engineers acknowledged degraded performance on Wednesday afternoon around 3:20 p.m. Eastern time, reporting an issue that was preventing people from connecting to Discord. The status update said an active investigation was underway.
"We’re aware of an issue that impacted voice connectivity on Discord and have identified and mitigated the cause," a Discord spokesperson told Newsweek about 6:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday. "Users should now be able to connect, and we’re working to prevent the issue from recurring.”
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"We're continuing to investigate impacts to voice connectivity," an update said around 20 minutes later. "There may be some temporary impacts to other features as we work to accelerate recovery."
Is Discord Down?
As of 5:11 p.m. Eastern time, users were still reporting issues with Discord, according to Downdetector.
A Discord spokesperson told Newsweek about 6:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday. "Users should now be able to connect, and we’re working to prevent the issue from recurring.”
What Issues Are Discord Users Facing?
Downdetector reports spiked at 3:19 p.m. Eastern time, with more than 22,000 reports pouring in at that time. Reports of Discord outages have declined since then, although as of 4:34 p.m. Eastern time, there were more than 7,000 reports. More than three-quarters of the complaints reported issues with voice calls, 18 percent with the app, and 4 percent with login.
What Does 'Awaiting Endpoint' Mean in Discord?
“Awaiting Endpoint” in Discord is an error message that appears when the app is unable to connect to the voice server assigned to your call. In other words, Discord knows which server you should be connecting to, but it can’t reach it, so the connection never completes.
It often occurs during major outages, networking issues, or server‑side failures, and prevents voice channels or calls from loading. It usually resolves once Discord reroutes you to a working server or finishes fixing the underlying outage.
Several Discord users complained of receiving a message that read "awaiting endpoint" when trying to connect to a voice channel.
"Is anyone else having issues with Discord right now? It just says Awaiting Endpoint when trying to connect to a voice channel," one user said.
"Is discord dead tonight? Been stuck on awaiting endpoint for voice chat on both mobile and pc," another said.
When Could Discord Be Back Up?
An exact time was not given, but engineers were actively working on remedying the issue. Problem reports with the app have decreased over the past 45 minutes, as of Wednesday evening.
Update 3/25/2026, 5:24 p.m. ET: This article was updated to include additional information.
Update 3/25/2026, 6:44 p.m. ET: This article was updated to include comment from Discord.
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