Quote:Zoom users around the world are unable to join meetings and video webinars using the Zoom web client and the desktop app just as students going back to school today have had to rely on Zoom's teleconferencing platform for online lessons.
 
According to an incident entry posted to Zoom's status page, some users have also been reporting that they can't open the company's website either.
 
Based on reports tracked by Downdetector, this outage is mainly affecting users from the United States East Coast and the United Kingdom.
 
"We have received reports of users being unable to visit the Zoom website (zoom.us) and unable to start and join Zoom Meetings and Webinars," Zoom says on its status page.
"We are currently investigating and will provide updates as we have them."
 
Last week, Zoom experienced another outage that prevented users from joining meetings and webinars through the Zoom web client and WebSDK, with the outage not affecting users joining using the Zoom application.
 
"The cause of this issue is our Web SDK servers are reaching capacity on peak usage," a Zoom staff member explained at the time. "We are adding more capacity and will update you when the process is complete."