Discord hit with 'major outage' affecting voice chat (Update: fixed!)

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News By Tyler Wilde published 25 March 2026 Voice servers were busted for over an hour on Wednesday. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Valve, Discord) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter PC Gamer The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? 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If Discord is getting stuck on the message “awaiting endpoint” when you try to connect to a voice server, it isn’t just you. We’re seeing the same thing, and Discord has reported a “major outage.”The good news is that the chat app maker thinks it knows what’s wrong, and is working on a fix. “We believe we have identified the issue and are taking action to try and restore voice traffic,” reads a message on the Discord status page, posted at 1:07 pm PDT.In the meantime, you could try using Steam’s built-in voice chat as an alternative.Article continues below You may like Discord fixes bug that caused app to take upwards of two whole minutes to launch Discord will decide which servers to age-gate ‘with a combination of automated detection with AI validation and human review’ Over 48% of unreleased games have a Discord server, and I’m sure this is all fine and normal and I don’t miss forums at all The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware dealsKeep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. 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