Fortnite Party Service Down, Epic Working on Fix

Fortnite Battle Royale is continuing to experience issues, with players unable to play a game with friends.
Epic Games has been sharing updates regarding these problems on Twitter. Currently party service is down, meaning you can only join a solo game or play with random players in a squad or duo. The issues, according to Epic, seem to stem from a big rise in player count.
Earlier this morning the studio planned to take Fortnite offline once again following 14 hours of downtime yesterday. "