# Avatar service somewhat broken

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-service-somewhat-broken/215061
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-service-somewhat-broken/215061 "2022-01-17T08:41:10Z")
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### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 9:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-service-somewhat-broken/215061/2 "2022-01-17T09:20:43Z")

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A fire/explosion in the vicinity of the datacenter where the avatar service is hosted has caused the outage. We are working on getting everything back online.

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