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Bluesky’s website and app are still there Struggling on Friday after experiencing a service outage caused by COO Rose Wang attributed To a denial of service attack. Thursday evening the company officially announced certain A “sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack” is responsible for the issues, which originally began on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, around 8:40 PM ET.
In a post on Bluesky’s account, the company shared the cause of the issue and noted that the attack “is impacting our operations, with users experiencing intermittent outages of service for their feeds, notifications, topics, and search.”
The company said it had seen no evidence of unauthorized access to private data.
network Status page Also not working currently.
Because outages are intermittent, the Bluesky website and app will sometimes load slowly, and other times will display error messages.
For example, switching to a specific feed within the app might display a message that says, “This feed is currently receiving high traffic and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Message from server: Rate limit exceeded.”
Popular feeds like Discover or the official Bluesky team feed often see this issue, even when users’ personal feeds are functional. Other times, such as when you try to visit a user’s profile, the site will display an error message, forcing you to refresh and try again.
Bluesky protocol engineer Brian Newbold noted around 3:46 AM ET on Wednesday, “Oh, our services are getting really difficult tonight.”
When originally reached for comment Thursday, Bluesky directed us only to Status.bsky.app Page and account (@status.bsky.app) for updates. The company did not comment on the ETA for the repair.
The company says today that it will provide another update on the attack status and mitigation on April 17 at 1 p.m. ET.
It is worth noting that the outage affects Bluesky, but other communities that run their own infrastructure on the underlying protocol that powers the decentralized social network appear to be working at the moment.
The Bluesky team was clearly in a frantic state this week while confronting these issues, as one of the messages on the status page had a typo: “Investigating a service related incident at one of our regino (sic).”
