More than 150 million people are regular users of Discord, an online community chat platform, but many people woke up on Friday to discover that they had seemingly been blocked from the platform.

To tell if someone blocked you on Discord, you can try sending them a direct message, reacting to one of their messages on a shared server, or sending them a friend request. If none of these work, it ...

You may have suffered a moment of panic this morning when you tried to fire up Discord only to be told, "Sorry, you have been blocked." Even more startling is a blurb ...

It seems the issue is affecting different areas. For example, I am getting the Discord “sorry, you have been blocked” message on a PC using the app. However, there are no issues when using the app.