# An Update on Chat Server Issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [February 18, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896 "2018-02-18T05:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sirrian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sirrian/32/35758_2.png) [@Sirrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sirrian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/1 "2018-02-18T05:11:00Z")
Hi everyone, Some of the team have been working this weekend to try and track down the chat issues we’ve been seeing - first on console, and then on PC/Mobile more recently. We have a theory what’s going on… **TL;DR:** Something outside our system broke - we think we might have found it - and we’ll be rebooting chat for 30-60 min’s sometime on our Monday to try replacing it. **More Technical Description:** Our chat server logs are showing occasional “errors” in the form of delays when attempting to write data to storage. These delays completely block input from players, leaving incoming chat messages either delayed or lost. We use a number of cloud services for chat, and it seems likely that one of the storage-related ones has changed recently, meaning that synchronous writes to EFS/NFS drives can fail, and block other processes. Our attempted fix for this will be to take chat briefly offline, switch over to an EBS drive, and then restart chat. Hopefully we’ll be fixed soon! ---
**Author:** ![Rickygervais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/2 "2018-02-18T05:14:37Z")
Awesome sirrian im glad you guys finally spotted the problem, thank you for the hard work you guys doing every day, this is really appreciate. Also i can’t wait for 3.3 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DeeM518](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/deem518/32/19315_2.png) [@DeeM518](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/DeeM518)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/3 "2018-02-18T05:20:47Z")
Thanks for the update Sirrian! Glad to hear you guys tracked down what you think is the issue, we appreciate all the hard work the team puts into this great game 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Smash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/smash/32/5574_2.png) [@Smash](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Smash)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 5:24am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/4 "2018-02-18T05:24:17Z")
yay for finding possible fix for it. GL with it working ---
**Author:** ![Droski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Droski](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Droski)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/5 "2018-02-18T05:53:04Z")
Awesome! i love you ---
**Author:** ![Vegan\_Urska](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/97f17d/32.png) [@Vegan\_Urska](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vegan_Urska)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/6 "2018-02-18T06:01:51Z")
Dang, thank you for sacrificing your weekend on this. I know you’d rather be elsewhere lol a lot of players will appreciate this. ---
**Author:** ![vanyel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/vanyel/32/32071_2.png) [@vanyel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/vanyel)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/7 "2018-02-18T07:07:12Z")
This will be most welcomed! Thanks @Sirrian ---
**Author:** ![NekrosLucem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nekroslucem/32/37443_2.png) [@NekrosLucem](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/NekrosLucem)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/8 "2018-02-18T17:39:37Z")
@Sirrian What about just simply using a server to delegate connections between those actively in chat and just rely more on P2P via the linked consoles. And since it would be delegated from a server, any malicious attempts would have to go through the server first in order to get to the P2P network. Just an idea. ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 12:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/9 "2018-02-19T00:10:42Z")
The servers were just restarted, so you may have noticed an disconnection (if you were not already experiencing an issue). Please restart your game if you did. The team are continuing to investigate chat issues this week. ---
**Author:** ![Rickygervais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/10 "2018-02-19T00:15:13Z")
Ty @Cyrup i hope it worked we will need it for raid boss next week? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/smash/32/5574_2.png) [@Smash](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Smash)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/11 "2018-02-19T00:32:03Z")
Unable to get back on at all, 2 restarts and 20min later and its unable to reconnect on PC. ---
**Author:** ![Rickygervais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/12 "2018-02-19T00:34:17Z")
Same here cannot connect to chat on xbox ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/13 "2018-02-19T00:42:54Z")
We only expected it to be about 10 minutes, but the team is still working on this and the chat will be down for a little while. ---
**Author:** ![Strat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Strat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Strat)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/14 "2018-02-19T00:55:51Z")
Please keep it down as long as it takes to resolve the issue. A few hours of down time is nothing in order to have working Guild chat. ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/15 "2018-02-19T01:03:43Z")
The chat issues should now be resolved. Please restart your game and let us know how it is! ---
**Author:** ![Rickygervais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/16 "2018-02-19T01:06:32Z")
Logging in and crossing fingers ---
**Author:** ![Rickygervais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/17 "2018-02-19T01:09:00Z")
Can log in on xbox but look like problem isn’t fixed i just writted something and waiting to see it appear on the screen Edit: also it’s feeezed i can’t switch between global and guild chat Restarting just in case Edit 2: nope not fixed sorry still can’t connect to chat ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/18 "2018-02-19T01:15:03Z")
We needed to do another reboot, I’ll let you know how it goes. ---
**Author:** ![UKresistance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ukresistance/32/7558_2.png) [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/20 "2018-02-19T01:21:00Z")
Working ten chrs ---
**Author:** ![Madhermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Madhermit](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Madhermit)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896/21 "2018-02-19T01:27:34Z")
Ps4 - restarted, tried to connect to chat. Error. Game crashed, self-closed. Tried again, seems ok 🤞 [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/an-update-on-chat-server-issues/35896.md?page=2)