Telegram Down Second Day: 8K Complaints, Lagging Everywhere—What's Going On?!

Users are flooding complaints about app freezes, inability to upload any files (photos, videos, documents), and message delays. Downdetector reports over 8,000 complaints in the last day.

Most issues in Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO), Magadan, Samara, and Sakhalin regions—peaks hit 20–30% of total complaints. Outages span the country: Moscow (21%), Novosibirsk region (14%), Sverdlovsk (9%), plus Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk, and the Far East. Mobile app, web client, and notifications affected.

Problems started morning of February 9 and persist into February 10. Globally, Telegram is stable (per Downdetector.com), pointing to a Russia-specific issue. Users note slow launches, media not loading, channels updating with delays. Some link it to past Roskomnadzor restrictions on calls and multimedia.

Telegram's team has no official comment yet, though Pavel Durov previously promised quick fixes. While developers stay silent, Russians switch to alternatives like MAX. Monitoring service "Sboy.RF" confirms Telegram load spiked 5x in a day. Users advised to restart the app, clear cache, or use VPN.