TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It’s Still Online. “When Anna’s Archive suffered widespread downtime earlier this month, many users feared a legal crackdown. Instead, the site was reportedly targeted by a coordinated assault on its network infrastructure. Just as it did after facing $340 million in damages and losing several domains earlier this […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/27/torrentfreak-annas-archive-owes-340-million-lost-several-domains-but-its-still-online/#siteoutages — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #siteoutages, aggregated by home.social.
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Parade: Dollywood Site Temporarily Crashes After Fans Rush to Honor Dolly Parton. “Within an hour of the public announcement, an overwhelming surge of visitors rushed to Dollywood.com to check operational updates, review travel plans, and secure park tickets. The sudden spike in web traffic briefly overwhelmed the Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, destination’s servers, The New York Post reported, […]
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TechCrunch: X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping. “Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app, has received cease-and-desist letters from X demanding that it shut down. The news was shared via a brief message posted to the project’s website, and follows X’s earlier attempts to […]
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TechCrunch: Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack. “Social networking site Bluesky says its recent day-long disruption was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that flooded the site with junk traffic. The social network confirmed the incident in a post on Monday, confirming the attack had taken place over the previous 24 hours.”
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TechCrunch: Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot. “Bad news for those who get their updates through RSS feeds: Feedly, the largest stand-alone RSS reader worldwide, has experienced technical issues for over a week, and paying users are upset that the web app has been ‘unusably slow.’ Some users have also reported that the company has ignored their support requests. […]
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The Register: Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later. “Google Cloud customers with resources in India have had to deal with elevated latency for several days – and there’s no end in sight. Per a Google status page, on June 9th ‘A fire at a third-party data center facility required an emergency power shutdown of networking equipment, isolating a […]
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Reuters: Amazon’s cloud was hit by two outages involving AI tools in December, FT says. “Amazon’s cloud unit suffered at least two outages in December stemming from errors involving its own AI tools, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.”
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TechCrunch: What’s Updog? Datadog’s new tool tells you which apps are down. “…the company launched a web dashboard that shows developers the status of dozens of services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack — essentially letting them check whether major software providers are functioning properly. The tool is free, so anyone can check Updog to find out if major SaaS […]
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NBC News: Victoria’s Secret takes down website after ‘security incident’. “A Victoria’s Secret spokesperson said it has hired third-party experts to deal with the problem but declined to answer questions about the specific nature of the cybersecurity issue and how long it might take to remedy. The perpetrators are unknown, but the incident comes two weeks after Google warned that an […]
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Search Engine Journal: WordPress WooCommerce Bug Causing Sites To Crash. “A WordPress bug is causing WooCommerce sites to display a fatal error, crashing ecommerce sites. The problem originates from a single line of code. A workaround has been created. The WooCommerce team is aware of the issue and is working on issuing a permanent fix in the form of a patch.”
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Boing Boing: 4chan back online. “The last rites were premature. 4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/boing-boing-4chan-back-online/
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Gizmodo: Social Security Website Crashes Blamed on DOGE Software Update. “Elon Musk’s war on fraud and abuse has impacted the Social Security Administration’s ability to distribute payments, according to a new report. In particular, frequent outages of the agency’s website in recent weeks have been linked to its expansion of fraud checks earlier in the claims process.”
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Gizmodo: Social Security Website Crashes as DOGE-Linked Disruption at the Agency Continues. “Key parts of the Social Security website have proven inaccessible over the past week, and the agency now says that it is probing the cause of the service disruptions. The problems come not long after the agency compelled retirees to seek help more exclusively online, as it attempts to downsize its […]
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ZDNet: X outages reportedly caused by massive cyberattack. “Social media platform X was reportedly hit by a massive cyberattack on Monday, causing intermittent outages. While owner Elon Musk has cited the attack as the cause, a hacking group known as Dark Storm Team has claimed responsibility.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/11/zdnet-x-outages-reportedly-caused-by-massive-cyberattack/
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Digital Trends: Live X outage: Twitter is down again. “The first huge spike of users reporting ‘X is down’ was at 2.30am PDT / 5.30am EDT, and while the service appeared to be back online, reports skyrocketed once again at 6.30am PDT / 9.30am EDT. Users are experiencing issues with both the X website and the X app. Some users are reporting the service was downright inaccessible; others […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/10/live-x-outage-twitter-is-down-again-digital-trends/