
Who spends $100M+ without doing this? I'm guessing all you saw is subscriber numbers. You should have had, and implemented, a business integration plan, in place from day one. You should have known what you bought when you acquired rights to his podcast: it's called due diligence. I like the fact that he talks to people from a range of viewpoints, many of which I disagree with: I don't like the fact that it took a social media fiasco and a bunch of artists leaving to label and tag his episodes more responsibly. (Tangentially, since I mentioned Joe Rogan already, I'm unpleased that a bunch of songs have disappeared from my playlists because of Spotify's poor and purely reactive handling of his podcast. Screw you, Spotify: I couldn't give a damn about Joe Rogan but if you don't fix your poor quality, dangerous user experience I'll cancel, because it's not worth a horrific car accident just to switch to a different playlist. Every time my Apple Carplay connection fails it's due to Spotify. More substantive example: poor integration, to the point of being dangerous, with Apple Carplay, and a generally crappily optimised, unresponsive and, yes, dangerous experience for driving with or without it. Then we'd all know what to expect when we pressed one of them.
Instead have two buttons: one for Home and one for Back. It's some sort of home/back hybrid where you're never quite sure what it's going to do (this is on iOS). IGN will continue to monitor the situation and post updates as they happen.Trivial example: the Home button that doesn't reliably take you home. Spotify and Discord are currently trending on Twitter as users report errors and post memes, as they are wont to do. Thanks for your reports!- Spotify Status March 8, 2022 Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it. Spotify, meanwhile, simply tweeted, "Something's not quite right, and we're looking into it. Apologies for the disruption & thx for hanging tight! - Discord March 8, 2022Īccording to Discord's status page, the platform is "continuing to investigate the issue impacting the API to find root cause." The update was sent at around 10:29 PST.

We’re aware of an issue causing message failures and are working on a fix. You can check the status of both Spotify and Discord using Down Detector, IGN's sister site. Spotify, meanwhile, has logged users out and is currently inaccessible.


Users are unable to access either platform, with Discord jokingly tweeting that it's "time for everyone to go outside."ĭiscord's issues began at around 9am PT and have since persisted. Two of the world's most popular social services, Spotify and Discord, are currently down.
