Zoom Video Conferencing Hit By An Outage

The online video conferencing service Zoom is struggling with failures. Users worldwide report that they cannot log in and cannot join meetings. Zoom has confirmed and fixed the issue, but it’s still not smooth for users. Zoom.us has been down since around 4:30 p.m. German time.

Suddenly, complaints about the unavailability piled up. The reports magazine Bleeping Computer refers to numerous user reports on the net and to the video conferencing service itself Zoom status page the company acknowledged issues with starting and joining meetings and scheduled video sessions. “We are investigating the reports that zoom.us is unavailable. Our teams are currently investigating the event that impacted the service. Our engineers are investigating the issue,” the company said.

Update: The problem with starting and joining meetings was quickly identified and, according to Zoom, has already been solved. After half an hour, the team had restored accessibility. “We fixed the issue preventing users from starting and joining Zoom meetings. We will continue to monitor the issue and provide updates as soon as we have them,” the company said. The status page says the incident has been resolved. Information on the possible cause has not yet been released.

Uses Continue To Face Problems

However, based on reports from services such as Downdetector and Allstrungen, Zoom users continue to have difficulties logging in to existing accounts, attending meetings, or scheduling meetings. Users continue to get messages like “Server connection error”, “The page you are looking for is not available at this time. Please try again later”, and similar error displays.