You can check whether fluxer.com is having problems at any time on fluxerstatus.com, our official status page. fluxer.com has been stable for months, and short disruptions still happen sometimes during denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on our network or problems with our hosting, and most of them last only a few minutes.
Is Fluxer down right now?
fluxerstatus.com shows the current status and uptime of each part of fluxer.com, including the voice regions, and it's linked at the bottom of every page on this site. Status pages at any other address aren't run by us. When the app takes a while to connect, it shows a notice with known incidents and maintenance and a link to the status page.
Our status page only shows fluxer.com, and each self-hosted instance is run by its own admins, who are the people to ask when that instance is down.
Why won't Fluxer connect when the status page says everything is fine?
The problem is most likely between your device and fluxer.com. Try another network, for example mobile data when you're on Wi-Fi, or turn off your VPN or proxy for a moment. If Fluxer works on another network, the network you were on is the cause.
If it still won't connect, check whether the web app at fluxer.com loads. When only the desktop app fails, a clean reinstall can help, but read what it removes first. If nothing helps, contact our support team, who are real people, and tell them what you tried.
Is Fluxer reliable?
fluxer.com runs on many servers today, and it had more than 500,000 accounts on 19 October 2026. Most of the outages people remember happened in February 2026, when it still ran on a single server and far more people joined than it was set up for.
What happened in February 2026?
Fluxer was released in January 2026 and had a few hundred accounts at first, and all of fluxer.com ran on a single server set up for that many people. On 9 February 2026, another chat app announced age verification, and people started coming to Fluxer to look for an alternative. More than 100,000 accounts were created in the 16 days starting that day.
With so many people at once, Fluxer was slow, apps kept losing their connection and fluxer.com went down often. Fluxer was still a small project, and its founder Hampus Kraft had written almost all of its code. Thank you to everyone who stayed with us through those weeks and was patient while we fixed the problems one by one.
What did we fix?
The main problem was hardware, because one server set up for a few hundred people suddenly had to handle more than 100,000 new accounts. Hampus had already been working on a large update to every part of Fluxer's code, and on 12 February 2026 he wrote in the public code's README that it should help fluxer.com handle the load far better. A large part of that update was published on 17 February 2026.
Most of the code held up under that much load, and the rush showed us a few parts that only started to struggle at that scale. Between 18 February 2026 and 22 February 2026, we fixed several bottlenecks in the gateway, the part of Fluxer that keeps your apps up to date in real time. On 27 February 2026, we fixed several memory leaks in the API, and you can find all of these changes in Fluxer's public code on GitHub.
We moved fluxer.com from one server to many, and it was offline from the afternoon of 27 February 2026 to the morning of 1 March 2026 (UTC) while we did. We can add servers as more people join, and if one restarts, the app moves you to another by itself.
We tested the busiest parts at that scale and made them faster. We also improved rate limiting, which slows down anyone who sends far more requests than the apps do.
When your connection drops, the app reconnects faster than before, especially when lots of people reconnect at the same time. The reconnecting banner shows the name of any ongoing incident with a link to the details, as our patch notes from October say.
What's next for stability?
We're moving fluxer.com to our own hardware in Sweden, where we'll control our own network, network number and IP addresses. We haven't set a date for the move yet.
With fewer outside factors that can cause problems, we expect the move to remove most of the remaining disruptions and are working toward excellent uptime in 2027.
Does Fluxer have an uptime guarantee?
We work to keep outages and interruptions rare, but Fluxer has no service-level agreement, and section 2.1 of our terms says that they can still happen sometimes.