Hallo KathyV2015,
sorry you have connection problems. You are right, something seemed to have not worked with discord, as I didn't see any message about connections problems, from you or somebody else.
I checked just now, and it works fine, but of course that may not have been true when you tried. But from your description it looks it happened over an extended period of time. And this leads me to believe that the problem is not on our end, because whenever something like this happens from the server side, the discord and forums are full of similar messages.
The problem could be something on your end or (likely) something in between. Have you tried using another browser or another device or even another network connection (land connection vs. cell phone connection)?
If the error messages come up again, could you make a screenshot and post it here?
Thanks,
Ingix