
NPU is working on parties of up to 2,500 to 3,000 people this year, down from 5,000 to 6,000 pre-COVID-19, according to Shannon White, NPU’s Bay Area general manager.(This year, Meta’s holiday parties will “likely happen on a team by team basis depending on office/site/location,” spokesperson Tracy Clayton told me.) For those that continue to have an issue with either Spotify or Discord, it may just now be a matter of a slight delay until access is fully restored.This year’s biggest tech company holiday parties will be half the size that they were before the pandemic, according to Non Plus Ultra, the venue and events company that hosted Meta’s lavish 2019 Game of Thrones-themed year-end bash. Whether or not that’s also the case for Spotify remains to be seen, but it is certainly possible. Interestingly, Discord didn't state that the original problem was fixed, but a workaround was implemented instead.

Also similar to Spotify, Discord acknowledged the problem and in slightly more detailed fashion by providing continuous updates on the progress it was making to implement a fix. The Discord issue also seems to have now been fixed, again, with access restored roughly around the same time as Spotify. At the same time, if the two outages were unrelated, then that would have been one strange coincidence. If the two outages were related, then it would normally be expected that there would be reports of other major services going down as well, especially if the problem was at the DNS or server level. Strangely, Discord was also down today and appeared to have started encountering issues around the same time as Spotify.
