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“This is our biggest single-day jump in new users that we’ve experienced.”

Bluesky has had a banner day, and it’s doing an emergency upgrade to handle the influx of new users. I’m already worried how I’m going to handle the five minutes of downtime — I haven’t been able to stop refreshing the app all day.

Update April 27th, 5:56PM ET: Bluesky made it through the downtime and is now back.

Bluesky’s maintenance message.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
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