Bluesky is down

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Bluesky is currently experiencing a major outage. On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed won’t load at all — it just shows a spinning loading circle. I’m seeing something similar with the mobile app; I can log in, but when I do, the feed doesn’t low. Other Verge colleagues are also experiencing issues. In a 6:55PM ET message on its status page, Bluesky says that that there are “major PDS networking problems” and that “we are investigating a major outage with Bluesky hosted PDS instances.” In a 7:38PM ET message, it says that “we have identified a likely root cause and are rolling out a fix to the Bluesky PDS fleet.” Blanksky. Image: Bluesky Bluesky didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. The company also hasn’t posted to its Twitter account about what might be going on. In November, Bluesky had some issues with slow-loading feeds and notifications bec ... Read full article.