3 weeks ago
9
Some users’ feeds failed to update for hours.
Some users’ feeds failed to update for hours.
by
Sep 24, 2025, 11:42 AM UTC
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge
is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor.
X alternative Bluesky seems to be having one of those days. I first noticed that my “Following” feed — which is supposed to load posts chronologically — wasn’t showing any posts more recent than two hours earlier. I follow 728 accounts right now, some of which are extremely online, so I knew something must be up. The feed is loading fine now, and never broke at all for some users, but Bluesky is still suffering from some residual issues.
When I tried to share one of my own articles from this morning during the outage, it appeared to post successfully — I can even still see it on my Bluesky profile page, and received a notification about a reply from one Verge reader — but when I try to click through to the post itself, it says it can’t be found.
1/2This post about an Android news story seems to have posted correctly. Screenshot: Dominic Preston / The Verge
While Bluesky’s own service page never reported any outage, Down Detector showed a spike in reports, so it wasn’t just me. One of my colleagues is seeing the same problems as me, while another saw an error message warning that “some kind of issue occurred when contacting the feed server.” Some Reddit users spotted problems too.
Then again, another colleague’s feed loaded just fine throughout, so whatever went wrong, it wasn’t universal. We’ve reached out to Bluesky for comment.
Update, September 24th: Bluesky appears to be (mostly) back to normal.
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
The Verge Daily
A free daily digest of the news that matters most.
