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Reddit was down — live updates on the short outage
Refresh 2025-04-29T16:24:43.101Z Working for me For what it’s worth, Reddit.com is loading for me (U.S. Editor-in-Chief Mike Prospero confirmed it’s working for him as well). Obviously, this is anecdotal evidence, and it’s not indicative of what everyone on the internet is experiencing. In fact, almost 5,000 people are hitting Down Detector to contradict our experience. 2025-04-29T16:22:05.295Z Reddit says everything is…
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Bluesky is back up after a major outage
Bluesky experienced a major outage on Thursday evening that lasted around an hour. On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed wouldn’t load at all, just showing a spinning loading circle. I saw something similar with the mobile app; I could log in, but when I did, the feed didn’t show. Other Verge colleagues were also experiencing issues. Now, though, it…
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Week-long Exchange Online outage causes email failures, delays
Microsoft says it partially mitigated a week-long Exchange Online outage causing delays or failures when sending or receiving email messages. While the company didn’t publicly share information on this incident, it tagged it as a critical service issue tracked under EX1027675 on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Microsoft has yet to share more information on what regions were affected by…
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New Microsoft 365 outage impacts Teams, causes call failures
Microsoft is investigating a new Microsoft 365 outage that is affecting Teams customers and causing call failures. Since the incident started more than one hour ago, outage monitoring service Downdetector has received hundreds of reports, with affected users saying they’re also experiencing authentication problems. “Users may not be able to receive calls placed through Microsoft Teams-provisioned auto attendants and call queues,” the company said in…
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Slack Outage Disrupted Work Messaging
Slack reported an outage on February 26 and 27, with most features back up by Thursday but some issues with messaging still persisting; in particular, some custom apps and bots did not work as expected. In addition, a problem with Slack Connect meant coworkers might not get notified if someone pinged them with the @ command. According to Downdetector, about…
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Reddit has recovered from another outage
Following some apparent outages on Thursday, Reddit dealt with more issues Friday evening that lasted for around two hours. Initially, when I logged in on my desktop browser during Friday’s outage, Reddit wouldn’t load at all — I would just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loaded, though it seemed to load slower than usual. I…
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Sony is giving PS Plus members extra days following PSN’s big outage
Following the huge PlayStation Network (PSN) outage that ended yesterday, Sony is giving an automatic five extra days of service to PlayStation Plus subscribers, according to a post from the official Ask PlayStation support account on X. “Network services have fully recovered from an operational issue,” the company wrote in the post. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank the…
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PlayStation Network down — live updates on major PSN outage
If you were planning on getting some gaming in on your PS5 or PS5 Pro this weekend, think again. The PlayStation Network is still down after going dark worldwide Friday evening, making this one of the largest PSN outages ever. The PlayStation status page says only “some services are experiencing issues,” but this appears to be a full outage, with…
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Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL
An attempt to block a phishing URL in Cloudflare’s R2 object storage platform backfired yesterday, triggering a widespread outage that brought down multiple services for nearly an hour. Cloudflare R2 is an object storage service similar to Amazon S3, designed for scalable, durable, and low-cost data storage. It offers cost-free data retrievals, S3 compatibility, data replication across multiple locations, and…
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Why the CrowdStrike outage was a wakeup call for developer teams
Software development leaders say their organization did not have a robust incident response plan in place to contend with disruption before the 2024 CrowdStrike outage. A report from IT services provider Adaptavist surveyed development leaders on how their organization reacted to the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024, which affected an estimated 8.5 million devices. The respondents came from organizations with…
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