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(Resolved) Service Outage Update [09/09/2025]

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Katie Mae🔮
Roll20 Team
For the last day, our team has been investigating unprecedented waves of instability in relation to our login/authentication service. The developers have been focused on&nbsp; immediate stabilization while investigating the underlying cause.&nbsp; While the team hasn’t confirmed a root cause yet, this is a season where DDOS attacks tend to hit us. We’re not ruling out any potential causes as we continue investigating.&nbsp; If you’re encountering these issues, we currently recommend manually signing out, clearing your cache and cookies, before signing back in again. We know that missing game night (or day) is never a great experience and we hear your frustrations of not being able to play your sessions — regardless of the reasoning behind it.&nbsp; We’re incredibly grateful for the patience and support the community has shown us over the past day and we’re working hard to get everyone’s sessions back on track. We will keep you posted and be as open as we can be about the situation.&nbsp; Until then, thank you for continuing to take us on your adventures and we look forward to getting everyone back into their games.&nbsp; UPDATE (9/10/2025 @ 4:30 PM MST): As we near the 20 hour mark since the last wave, we are no longer seeing large surges of outages, and instead small handfuls of users still experiencing the issue. Because of this, we’re updating our currently recommended protocol: If you are still running into this issue after clearing your cache and signing in again, please reach out to the Help Center so that we may investigate your case individually: <a href="https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/requests/new" rel="nofollow">https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/requests/new</a> Our team is committed to getting everyone back into their games, so if you’re still struggling, please get in touch! Please include the following when reaching out: The browser in use A description of the issue (screenshots or screen recordings would be rad!) If the recommended troubleshooting steps changed the issue present UPDATE (9/12/2025 @ 12:40 PM MST): Good news update:&nbsp;The team has identified and fixed the root cause of the outages! Our login database ended up showing signs of degradation, so we had to perform rolling maintenance on it that took several days to complete. While the outages only occurred in short bursts at the start of the week, we wanted to make sure the repair was solid before giving the official all-clear to our community. If you are one of the stragglers who can still see the yellow login prompt at the top of your VTT— please log out and refresh your cache before signing back in . Your game may encounter errors while trying to run until you do so. We promise now is the time! If you need help with this or are still having issues, don’t hesitate to reach out to our Help Center . We want to get you back up and rolling! And again, our profound thanks for your patience and support as we sorted this out, we are always so grateful to be a part of your adventures!&nbsp;
People are paying memberships for this service. At what point do you start compensating for the downtime? Blaming it on an unseen DDOS seems like a copout to me.
Thank you for the update. although it did stink to miss game night tonight I am confident you are doing everything you can to take care of this.
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Mike B. said: People are paying memberships for this service. At what point do you start compensating for the downtime? Blaming it on an unseen DDOS seems like a copout to me. the monthly price is 9 dollars, you want 2 cents for the two days its down?
Avrs said: Mike B. said: People are paying memberships for this service. At what point do you start compensating for the downtime? Blaming it on an unseen DDOS seems like a copout to me. the monthly price is 9 dollars, you want 2 cents for the two days its down? He probably wants a free day, or a discount on his next month fee.&nbsp;
I'm glad we stuck it out tonight. Thankyou Roll20 for keeping things going on.&nbsp; I logged into a game that wasn't using Jumpgate, and saw it logged me in, switched to my hosted game and got in.&nbsp; It might have just been timing, but we were playing by 9:40 or so.&nbsp;
Me, I'm erring on the side of caution and already called off my games this week to make sure. Let the dust settle, as it were.
One of my players had to shut down/turn on his PC, but we got up and running pretty quickly…
Thank you for the update, and for working on restoring service. We were fortunate to have been able to connect right before our game starting time tonight.&nbsp;
Thanks for the updates. We were able, with lots of reloads, to finally get everyone into our game tonight -- late, but better than never.&nbsp;
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Yeah, we had to do a whole bunch of reloads and refreshes but our game got decently underway by 7 PM PDT or so. It seems like GMs have an easier time getting into their own games, but some players keep getting stuck in the logout/ Internal Server Error loop. That's been my experience, anyway. Hope it gets all fixed soon, and thanks for the update.&nbsp;
Character creation is affected too. Lots of essential things aren't clickable.
Avrs said: Mike B. said: People are paying memberships for this service. At what point do you start compensating for the downtime? Blaming it on an unseen DDOS seems like a copout to me. the monthly price is 9 dollars, you want 2 cents for the two days its down? 2 cents is fine for me, as long as everybody who pays gets their 2 cents.
I can't launch games right now. It keeps kicking me back to the login screen.
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Gauss
Forum Champion
SIMON M. said: I can't launch games right now. It keeps kicking me back to the login screen. Hi Simon M.,&nbsp; Have you cleared cookies and cache, manually logged out and logged back in? (I know, it is a pain, but it might work.)
I cannot load into games right now. Reloaded, relogged, cleared cache, cookies etc - no bueno. Still experiencing issues?&nbsp;
hmm... still no access. This is making it impossible to prep for my Friday game. Ay compensation for being down multiple days? This is going on for three days now.&nbsp;
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Katie Mae🔮
Roll20 Team
Update! As we near the 20 hour mark since the last wave, we are no longer seeing large surges of outages, and instead small handfuls of users still experiencing the issue. Because of this, we’re updating our currently recommended protocol: If you are still running into this issue after clearing your cache and signing in again, please reach out to the Help Center so that we may investigate your case individually: <a href="https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/requests/new" rel="nofollow">https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/requests/new</a> Our team is committed to getting everyone back into their games, so if you’re still struggling, please get in touch! Please include the following when reaching out: The browser in use A description of the issue (screenshots or screen recordings would be rad!) If the recommended troubleshooting steps changed the issue present Thanks, all &lt;3&nbsp;
Outages happen in an online service. Thanks for the efforts to resolve, folks.
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Katie Mae🔮
Roll20 Team
Good news update:&nbsp;The team has identified and fixed the root cause of the outages! Our login database ended up showing signs of degradation, so we had to perform rolling maintenance on it that took several days to complete. While the outages only occurred in short bursts at the start of the week, we wanted to make sure the repair was solid before giving the official all-clear to our community. If you are one of the stragglers who can still see the yellow login prompt at the top of your VTT— please log out and refresh your cache before signing back in . Your game may encounter errors while trying to run until you do so. We promise now is the time! If you need help with this or are still having issues, don’t hesitate to reach out to our Help Center . We want to get you back up and rolling! And again, our profound thanks for your patience and support as we sorted this out, we are always so grateful to be a part of your adventures!&nbsp;
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Pro
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Thanks for the explanation! It didn’t affect me or my players, fortunately. ;)