Bluesky Experiences Ongoing Service Disruptions Due to High Traffic
Bluesky's website and app have been experiencing intermittent outages since early Thursday morning. The company attributed the issues to a denial-of-service attack, affecting access to popular feeds and user profiles.
indianexpress.comm. ET on Thursday. m. ET and have continued throughout the day. Users report that the Bluesky website and app load inconsistently, sometimes slowly and other times returning error messages. When switching to certain feeds, such as Discover or the official Bluesky Team feed, users encounter messages indicating high traffic and temporary unavailability due to rate limits being exceeded.
Personal user feeds may still load intermittently. Attempts to visit individual user profiles often result in error messages requiring page refreshes. m. ET, noting that the services were experiencing significant strain.
The company has attributed the disruptions to a denial-of-service attack but has not provided an estimated timeline for resolution or further details. Bluesky has not responded to requests for additional comment. Other communities that operate their own infrastructure on the decentralized protocol underlying Bluesky appear to be functioning without similar issues at this time.
Story Timeline
3 events- 2026-04-16 02:42 a.m. ET
Bluesky service disruptions began according to the status page.
1 sourceTechCrunch - 2026-04-16 03:46 a.m. ET
A Bluesky protocol engineer commented on the service difficulties.
1 sourceTechCrunch - 2026-04-16 morning
Bluesky continues to experience intermittent outages affecting popular feeds and user profiles.
1 sourceTechCrunch
Potential Impact
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Users may experience reduced access to Bluesky feeds and profiles until the issue is resolved.
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The company may need to enhance security measures to prevent future denial-of-service attacks.
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Other platforms using the same protocol may see increased user activity during Bluesky outages.
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